Whole Lotta Brains
This part of the neuron receives information from other neurons.
What are the dendrites?
The neurotransmitter responsible for fight or flight response.
What is norepinephrine?
95% of the photoreceptors on the human retina.
What are rods?
Pitch is a term for frequency while ______________ is a term for amplitude.
What is volume or loudness?
Dutch artist who used many Gestalt perceptual principles in his artwork.
Who is M.C. Escher?
This type of brain scan requires the injection of radioactive dye to create colored images of brain activity.
What is a Positron Emission Tomography or PET scan?
The neurotransmitter that makes narcotics and stimulants so addictive.
What is dopamine?
If the lens becomes cloudy, this eye disorder follows.
What are cataracts?
Long wavelengths are associated with ______ frequency or pitch.
What is low?
Hit, miss, false alarm, and correct ______________ are the four perceiver responses in Signal Detection Theory or SDT.
Who is rejection?
The language loop between Wernicke's and Broca's Areas involves these two lobes of the brain.
What are the temporal (Wernicke's) and frontal (Broca's) lobes?
If doctors can control serotonin levels, they will most likely control the effects of __________________.
What is depression, emotions, or mood regulation?
Cones are located here (BE SPECIFIC, 'on the back of eyeball' or 'on the retina' is not specific enough).
What is the fovea or center of the retina?
Finish the hearing process: Outer ear, ear canal, ear drum, ___________, anvil, ____________, cochlea, __________________, temporal lobe.
What is the hammer, stirrup, and auditory nerve?
Laws or rules that describe how the brain perceives visual elements (continuation, proximity, figure-ground are a few examples).
What are Gestalt principles of perception?
This part of the brain is essential for long-term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
Those suffering from Alzheimer's Disease often have too little of this neurotransmitter.
What is ACh or acetylcholine?
This color theory of vision concludes that the retina contains three different types of color receptors (red, blue, and green) and when light stimulates a combination of these cones, we begin the perception of color.
What is the trichromatic theory (aka Young-Helmholtz theory)?
This type of deafness is caused by damage to the hammer, anvil, or stirrup (the tiny bones in the middle ear that amplify sound).
What is conduction deafness?
_________________ is an illusion created by a rapid succession of stationary images. Animation and motion picture films work this way.
What is stroboscopic movement?
Called the 'little brain' this neuron-rich part of the brain controls your posture, your ability to tap dance, and your balance.
What is the cerebellum?
The brain's main excitatory neurotransmitter. Too much of this and brain cells begin to die.
What is glutamate?
This theory of color vision depends on 3 paired sets of colors (red-green, blue-yellow, white-black). Staring at a green image for a while will fatigue, or tire, your cones and produce a red negative afterimage.
What is the Opponent-Process Theory?
This pitch principle explains how we hear low pitch tones up to 100 Hz.
What is the frequency principle?
Your brain constructs perceptions from sensory input by drawing on prior knowledge or experiences.
What is top-down processing?