PSYC 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Optical Illusion, Visual Cortex, Sensory Neuron

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 200
• Professor: Peter Van Der Velde

Document Summary

Synesthesia experience involuntary and consistent links, or intermixing, between their sensory systems. Grapheme-colour synesthesia a person who always sees color in response to a speci c letter or number (example number 9 is always perceived as turquoise or the letter j is always perceived as orange) Asethesis means perceptions and refers to joined perceptions . A lot of what happens in the world goes unrecognized by our perceptual systems. Various sensory systems engage in two process called sensation and perception, both are critical for our interpretation and interaction with out environment. Sensation: stimulation of sensory receptor cells, which relay this information to the brain for processing (using sensory systems to detect environmental stimuli) Transduction: transformation of physical energy from the environment into electrical signals for the brain occurs in a process called transduction. Perception: recognizing and identifying sensory stimulus. (the result of neural processing that organize and interpret sensations as representing a certain object of event)