Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Additive Color, Taste, Roygbiv

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

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Synthesia is the experience of mixing sense : experience sounds as colours or tastes as touch sensations have different shapes. Sensory-impaired people provide glimpses into different aspects of how we. Whether the stimulus is light, sound waves a chemical molecule, or pressure: sensory receptors must translate information into the only language your nervous system understands. Feature detectors: specialized neurons that break down and analyze the specific features of the stimuli. Then numerous stimulus pieces are reconstructed into a neural representation that is then compared with previously stored information. This matching of a new stimulus with our internal storehouse of knowledge allows us to recognize the stimulus and give it meaning. The stimulation we receive through our sense organs in immediately organized and transformed into the experiences that we refer to as perceptions. Sensation stimulus-detection process by which our sense organs respond to and translate environmental stimuli into nerve impulses that are sent to the brain.