Hearing
The perceptual quality of sound that corresponds to its frequency
What is pitch?
The sense of body and limb position
What is proprioception?
The brain area where taste and smell signals combine to create flavor
What is the orbitofrontal cortex?
A sound wave that consists of a single frequency
What is pure tone?
The receptors in the skin that respond to mechanical stimulation such as pressure and vibration
What are mechanoreceptors?
The process by which taste and smell receptors regenerate over time
What is neurogenesis?
The perceptual quality of sound that distinguishes between two tones with the same pitch and loudness
What is timbre?
The type of fibers respond continuously to a stimulus
What are slowly adapting (SA) fibers?
The 5 basic taste qualities
Salty, sour, sweet, bitter, umami
A graph that shows the threshold of hearing as a function of frequency
What is Audibility curve?
The minimum distance between two points that can be perceived as separate
What is two-point threshold?
The term that describes the unique pattern of neural activity across taste fibers that represents a specific taste
What are across-fiber patterns?
the structure in the cochlea that contains hair cells and is responsible for converting sound vibrations into neural signals
What is Organ of Corti?
The perception of three-dimensional objects through active exploration with the hands
What is haptic perception?
The phenomenon where food becomes less pleasurable as you eat more of it
What is sensory-specific satiety?