PSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Semicircular Canals, Endolymph, Saccule
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Starts again when stim stops): location: location-specific stimuli by nerves are sent to brain. *note: this graph doesn"t relate rows to columns, read columns separately. The vestibular system: a type of sensation. In these are caco3 (calcium carbonate) crystals attached to hair cells in viscous gel. If we go from lying down to standing up, they move, and pull on hair cells, which triggers ap. These would not work very well w/o gravity! Its role in psychology imagine being given a list. Now experimenter asks, which words on the second list were on the first. It"s foggy day & you have to decide when to start driving. Signal is present or absent (red): options: hit/miss/false alarm/correct rejection. Hit, the subject responded affirmative when a signal was present, False alarm, the subject perceived a signal when there was none present; Correct rejection, a correct negative answer for no signal. Miss, a negative response to a present signal.
