I see the light.
Black and white and red all the way over there.
Can you hear me now?
Feeling the burn.
First they're sour, then they're sweet.
100
The human visual system processes neural activity generated by photons that have wavelengths within this range.
What is 400 to 700 nm?
100
The perception of relative redness, blueness, or yellowness of an object.
What is hue?
100
The malleus, incus, and stapes.
What are the bones of the middle ear?
100
This guy who represents how the human body would look if our bodies represented our sensory perceptions.
What is the homunculus?
100
The olfactory system detects airborne molecules and generates percepts generally called this.
What are odors (smells)?
200
The two types of receptor cells present in the retina.
What are rods and cones?
200
The degree to which the precept approaches a neutral gray.
What is saturation?
200
The perception of sound intensity, or loudness, is measured in this unit.
What is the decibel?
200
Following the amputation of an extremity, some patients experience this phenomenon.
What is phantom limb?
200
Human taste receptors on the tongue respond to these five categories of tastant molecules.
What are Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Salty, Savory (Umami)?
300
Visual acuity, or the fineness of discrimination between stimuli, depends on this.
What is the distribution of photoreceptors across the retina?
300
While the area V4 is important for processing information pertinent to color vision, this area is especially important for generation of motion perception.
What is the Middle Temporal (MT)?
300
The ordered perception of higher or lower tones along a continuum.
What is pitch?
300
The main target of the ascending somatosensory pathways is the ventral posterior nuclear complex located in this brain region.
What is the thalamus?
300
The gustatory cortex is also known as this.
What is the insula?
400
These streams that form high resolution vision and object recognition are respectively called the "what" and the "where" pathways.
What are the ventral and dorsal streams?
400
Humans perceive three dimensional space using this kind of depth perception.
What is binocular depth perception (using both eyes)?
400
Within the cochlea, the basilar membrane and these types of receptor cells initiate auditory processing and ultimately auditory perception.
What are hair cells?
400
These pain-inducing nerve endings arise from cell bodies in the dorsal root ganglia.
What are nociceptors?
400
This ingredient in chili peppers also elicits a perceived "hot" or "burning" sensation.
What is capsaicin?
500
The physical correlate of brightness that is a measure of light intensity made by a photometer.
What is Luminance?
500
The perception that letters or words are associated with certain colors.
What is Synesthesia?
500
To do this, neurons in the medial superior olive (MSO) use auditory input from both ears to act as coincidence detectors.
What is to localize sound?
500
When a patient experiences a physiological response following the administration of a pharmacologically inert medication or treatment.
What is the placebo effect?
500
This system responds to noxious chemicals that find their way into the nose and mouth, which are often perceived as irritating.
What is the trigeminal system?