Optic Flow & Visual Cues
This visual pattern tells you your speed, direction, and helps you balance as you move.
What is Optic Flow?
Blind individuals can navigate hallways using this auditory technique.
What is Human Echolocation?
Sensory system in the inner ear that helps maintain balance, spatial orientation, and gaze stability by detecting head motion and gravity.
What is The Vestibular System?
What is Wayfinding? What are Landmarks?
Touching your nose with your eyes closed relies entirely on this sense.
What is Proprioception?
This process turns light into electrical signals your brain uses to build a spatial layout.
What is Phototransduction?
This shift in frequency tells you whether a sound source is approaching or moving away.
What is Doppler Shift?
These organs detect gravity and linear acceleration.
What are the otolith organs?
This reason for movement helps us avoid danger and find resources.
What is Survival?
These receptors in joints help you sense joint angle and movement.
What are Joint Receptors?
These cues, like convergence and retinal disparity, help you perceive depth.
What is Binocular Disparity?
This structure in the inner ear turns sound waves into neural signals.
What is Cochlea?
This reflex stabilizes your posture when you unexpectedly lose balance.
What is Vestibulospinal Reflex?
This type of movement helps infants develop depth perception.
What is Crawling?
This term describes the sense of body position and movement.
What is Kinesthesia?
Information that indicates how an object can be used.
What are Affordances?
This tiny trio of bones amplifies sound before it reaches the cochlea.
What are Ossicles? (Malleus, Incus, and Stapes)
This condition occurs when your vestibular system and visual system disagree, often causing nausea.
This theory says movement gives us the sensory data needed to build internal models of the world.
What is Predictive Processing?
These receptors in your muscles detect stretch and help you know where your limbs are without looking.
What are Muscle Spindles?
A response to an object that includes how it can be used and the action we can take to use it. Ex: A ladder
What are Action Affordances?
This difference in sound arrival time between your ears helps determine direction.
What is Interaural Time Difference?
This condition occurs when the vestibular system has no gravity reference, causing nausea and disorientation in astronauts.
What is Space Sickness?
This theory states that perception and action form a continuous loop.
What is Ecological Approach to Perception?
These receptors in your tendons monitor muscle tension and prevent you from overexerting.
What are Golgi Tendon Organs?