Visual Anatomy and Perception
The five specialized neurons found in the visual cortex that receives information from the ganglion cells called feature detectors.
What is light and color, line, shape, angle, and motion?
The idea that environmental factors affect how an individual perceives the world around.
What is context effects?
The three areas making up the structure of the ear.
What is outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear.
The sense of knowing where your body is.
What is kinesthetic sense?
First stage of color processing where photoreceptors, or cones, work in three.
What is trichromatic theory?
The tendency to perceive only some parts and ignore other parts of sensory data.
The medium of transfer for sound that is found in the inner ear.
What is liquid?
Causes difficulty in daily functioning involved with using motor tasks, like buttoning your shirt.
What is kinesthetic impairment?
Where is information perceived in the occipital lobe after it reaches the back of the retina (rods and cones)?
What is primary visual cortex?
Stimulus that doesn't affect an individual consciously but can affect the way that they behave.
What is a subliminal stimulus?
The difference in sound when amplitude or frequency changes.
What is loudness and pitch?
The difference between vestibular sense and the kinesthetic sense.
What is vestibular sense is the sense of balance while kinesthetic sense is responsable for actual movements?
Type of illusion able to manipulate the Gestalt Principle.
What is cognitive?
What is the minimum amount of stimulus needed to sense something 50% of the time called, also known as the just-noticeable difference.
What is difference threshold?
What is more oscillations for high frequency than low frequency?
Detects and encodes small airborne chemicals called odorants.
The Zöllner Illusion is an example for the type of illusion(s).
What is physiological and physical?
The difference between perceiving information from top-down and buttom-up.
What is using prior knowledge for top-down and organizing information as it comes for buttom-up.
The three basic anatomical components of the ear.
What is pinna, bones of the middle ear, and cochlea of the inner ear?
The result of the interaction of taste, smell, vision, and touch.
What is the production of perceptions of foods and drinks that go beyond the basic tastes.