Audition
The 'frequency' of a sound most closely corresponds to this perceptual characteristic.
What is pitch?
the vestibular system does not detect position or velocity directly, but senses this instead.
What is acceleration? (or change in velocity?)
In spectrograms of human speech, sustained sound intensity at a particular frequency or group frequencies tend to denote this kind of sound.
What are vowels?
This is the name for the perceptual phenomenon of mixed sesnsory perceptions (e.g. tasting sounds or seeing numbers as colored)
what is synaesthesia?
This is the name for one region in the brain that is devoted to face processing.
What is FFA? (The fusiform face area)
Nociceptors detect this.
What are painful stimuli?
This shell-shaped tube in the inner ear converts acoustic vibrations into nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea?
This system of inner-ear organs consists of three fluid-containing 'tubes'.
what are the semicircular canals?
This is the linguistic name for the smallest meaningful unit of of speech (consonant + vowel)
What is a phoneme?
What is mental rotation?
This is the name for the inability to recognize faces.
What is prosopagnosia?
Two points of contact with the skin can be distinguished most finely on one of these locations.
What are fingertips, hands, lips, tongue?
There are two cues for location of sounds - phase differences and inter-aural intensity differences. Which one is best used with high frequencies of sound?
Inter-aural intensity differences
Many migrating birds sense this property of the Earth to determine the direction they are facing.
What is the magnetic field?
Speech perception, like face perception, is based on templates (for speech sounds not faces) and is subject to false alarms, such as hearing speech in [this]
what is backward speech or noise?
This is the model or theory that mental images are represented in a language-like fashion (like a story and are fuzzy on visual details.
What is propositional theory?
What is upside down?
Name three of the many different types of stimuli commonly lumped together into your sense of 'touch'
What are vibrations, pressure, pain, hot, cold, itch, pleasant touch, and muscle stretch
This term refers to higher-frequency vibrations which often occur alongside a 'fundamental' frequency
What are harmonics?
Disruption of the normal relationship between visual and vestibular cues, which can occur in an interior cabin of a boat or in virtual reality, often produces this physiological response.
What is motion sickness? (or nausea)
Name at least two parts of your vocal apparatus (body structures you use to make sounds)
what are lips, tongue, vocal cords, teeth?
This phenomenon has been used to verify that people who report color-grapheme synesthesia actually do "see" letters or numbers as different colors.
What is visual search or pop-out?
Daily double: What is the basis for the other-race effect?
[discuss]
This is the name for your ability to detect your body's position in space (e.g. the degree of extension of your arms)
What is proprioception?
Alongside 'place' or labeled-line coding, this is the other type of code for pitch used in the cochlea
What is temporal or frequency coding?
These two techniques, used by bats and dolphins respectively, use the reflections of high-frequency sounds to determine the locations of objects in the world around them.
What are echolocation and sonar?
This is the name for the phenomenon in which lip reading can affect perception of speech sounds.
What is the McGurk effect?
This is one property of images that is frequently rendered incorrectly by artists
What is shadow? (or reflections)
What is pareidolia?
This is the name for the map of the body in somatosensory cortex in the brain.
What is the (somatosensory) homonculus?