Brain
The lobe responsible for abstract thought, social skills and planning
Frontal Lobe
Comprised of brain and spinal cord
Central nervous system
The set of structures involved in the control of goal-directed voluntary movement
Basil Ganglia
The process whereby our sensory organs or receptors receive information about the environment and transmit it to the brain
Sensation
The principles of visual perception, used to organise and interpret perceptual stimuli; including figure-ground organisation, closure, similarity and proximity
Gestalt principles
the lobe responsible for processing of sensory information
Parietal lobe
The bundle of nerve fibres connecting the brain with the peripheral nervous system
Spinal cord
This system consists of amygdala, hypothalamus and midbrain; implicated in memory, emotion, behaviour and motivation
Limbic system
The process whereby the brain organises and interprets sensory information.
Perception
Depth cues that use on eye independently to gauge distance and space
Monocular depth clues
the lobe responsible for hearing, language and visual recognition
Temporal lobe
The type of neuron that carries information from the body and from the outside world into the central nervous system.
Sensory neuron
Is responsible for the consolidation of explicit memories and acts to transfer these to other parts of the brain for storage as long term memory
Hippocampus
The photoreceptors providing peripheral vision in black and white; they work in dim light
Rods
A binocular cue fir the depth perception; the automatic turning of the eyes inwards as we watch an object approaching
Convergence
the part of the brain located at the rear of each frontal lobe, responsible for movement of muscles on each side of the body.
Primary motor cortex
The division of the CNS that sends messages from the body to the brain, made up of the somatic and autonomic nervous systems
Peripheral nervous system
A structure in the forebrain that plays a major role in controlling emotion and motivated behaviours such as eating, drinking and sexual activity
Hypothalamus
The photoreceptors providing clear vision in our colour; they work in bright light
Cones
The binocular depth cue that arises as the brain compares and contrasts the two different images obtained because of the distance between the two eyes
Retinal disparity
The cortex located in each parietal lobe, processes sensations such as touch, pressure, temperature and pain
Primary somatosensory cortex
The division of the central nervous system that controls voluntary movements and passes sensory information from the environment to the brain.
Somatic nervous system
The part of the brain central to emotion, aggression, fear and implicit learning
Amygdala
The process where stimulus is given meaning the brain based on our past experiences, motives, values and context
Interpretation
a theory applied to the Müller-Lyer illusion that proposes that our familiarity with the right angles and straight lines of the built environment informs our interpretation of linear perspective in pictorial depth perception
Carpentered world hypothesis