The Ear
This is the job of the outer ear.
What is funnel sound?
The units of loundess.
What are decibels?
Frequencies in vision and sound.
What are spatial frequencies and pitch?
Suppose you have surgery to amputate your left leg. You wake up from the surgery and still feel like your left leg is there. You are experiencing this phenomenon.
What is a phantom limb?
These are the four basic tastes.
What are sweet, bitter, salty, and sour?
The three tiny bones called ossicles are located here.
What is the middle ear?
This part of a sound wave relates to the sound's loudness or intensity?
What is the amplitude?
Amplitude in vision and sound.
What is contrast and loundness?
This is the minimum distance at which two stimuli are just perceptible as separate.
What is the two point touch threshold?
This is the theory that deficiency of a given nutrient produces craving for that nutrient.
What is the specific hungers theory?
This is a thin sheet of skin at the end of the outer ear canal that vibrates in response to sound.
What is the tympanic membrane (ear drum)?
Frequency is usually measured in these units.
What are Hertz (Hz)?
The ability to perceive some frequencies depends on the amplitude.
What is the contrast sensitivity function?
This type of perception is knowledge of the world that is derived from sensory receptors in skin, muscles, tendons, and joints, and usually involves active exploration.
What is haptic perception?
The reason that food tastes bland if you have a cold is that your sinuses are usually stuffed, which restricts airflow through the nose and prevents this from occurring.
What is retronasal olfaction?
These are located on the Organ of Corti and the site of auditory transduction.
What are hair cells?
Hearing loss that is caused by problems with the bones of the middle ear.
What is conductive hearing loss?
The site of sensory transduction in the eye and the ear.
If you pick up a novel object that you've never seen before and run your fingers along it to get a better sense of its shape, you are engaging in this behavior.
What are haptic exploratory procedures?
Individuals born without receptors for the bitter PROP.
What are non-taster’s?
The organization of A1 and the basilar membrane.
What is tonotopic organization?
The angle of a sound source on the horizontal plane relative to a point in the center of the head between the ears.
What is the azimuth?
Binocular cues and binaural cues.
What is binocular disparity, IID, and ITD.
This is an maplike representation of cortical magnification of regions of the body processed in the brain.
What is the somatosensory homunculus?
These are the small structures on the tongue that have no taste function and are responsible for its bumpy appearance.
What are filiform papillae?