Synesthesia
What is Synesthesia??
A neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses, stimulates more than one sense.
What taste helps identify an energy source in food?
What do illusions do??
They mislead us by playing with the way we organize and interpret our sensations.
What is sensation ?
How our sensory receptors and nervous system receive stimulus from the environment?
Is this a disease?
No, it isn't a disease.
What taste help signal/identify potential toxic acid?
The sour taste
What is dept perception?
It is a way for us to judge distance by comparing the images from both our eyes.
What is perception?
How our brains organize and interpret that sensory information.
What percent of the population have synesthesia?
2-5% of the people
What affects the perception of taste?
Expectations and color of the food can affect the perception of taste
Who creates the likelihood principle and what is it ?
What is Webber's law?
" To be perceived as different, 2 stimuli must differ by a constant percentage rather than by a constant amount"
What does the word synesthesia translate to as it has Greek roots?
It translates to Percieve together.
Who are super tasters or what does that term mean ?
Supertasters are people that generally perceive the sensation of taste as stronger and so they may have stronger reactions to particular food/spices.
What is Relative size?
We perceive that the one that casts a smaller retinal image is father away because we assume that they the objects are similar in size.
When does McGurk effect occur ?
It is when there is a conflict between what you see and hear.
Which tests do people with Synesthesia do better on than people who don't have it?
Memory and intelligence test
Is perception an active process?
Yes
What does optical illusion use to mislead us ?
It uses color, light and patterns to mislead us.
Long sound waves = what frequency and what pitch and the same thing with short sound waves
Long sound waves = low frequency and low pitch
Short sound waves = high frequency and high pitch