Sensation

  • Transduction
  • receptors
  • adaptation
  • temporal codes/ spatial codes
  • topographical representations
  • primary cortex
  • Physical Characteristics of Sound: amplitude length; frequency
  • Psychological Dimensions of Sound: loudness, pitch, timbre
  • Parts of the ear; Pinna, tympanic membrane, auditory nerve
  • Auditory Transduction – cochlea, basilar membrane, auditory nerve
  • Deafness: conduction, nerve
  • Theories of hearing: Place Theory (traveling wave); Frequency matching
  • Primary auditory cortex
  • Light; intensity, wavelength
  • Parts of the eye: cornea, pupil, iris, lens, retina
  • "Photoreceptors" rods, cones, (What?)
  • bipolar cells’ ganglion cells
  • summation (convergence)
  • fovea – why most accurate vision here?
  • Light and dark adaptation
  • Blind spot
  • Interneurons; lateral inhibition
  • Center-surround receptor field
  • Seeing color: hue, saturation, brightness; additive color mixing
  • Trichromatic Theory of Color Vision (Helmholtz)
  • Opponent-process theory of color vision
  • Modern view of color vision
  • Colorblindness – Most common type?
  • Visual Pathways: Optic chiasm, Thalamus, Visual cortex
  • Parallel processing
  • Research of Hubel and Wiesel – Feature detectors. (LGN)
  • Olfaction – Stimulation by gasses/only sense that doesn’t go through thalamus
  • Pheromones
  • Gustation – papillae
  • Research by Bartoshuk on Taste and flavor
  • Touch receptors
  • Gate control theory of pain
  • Kinesthesia 
  • Vestibular system
  • Balance
  • dyslexia