PSYC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Perilymph, Mechanoreceptor, Sound
20 Jul 2016
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Mechanical mechanisms of sound transduction(quick review from last class). The properties of the cochlea and the basiliar membrane that result in a place code for frequency how they could be encoded as a forreir analyzer, the wave decompositions that you learned to do intuitively during class. Mechanical transduction is how sound frequency is decomposed a long the basiliar membrane. How does that mechanical energy become an action potential or lots of action potentials. Your brain can basically use to understand what the frequency of the sound is and what the amplitude of that sound wave is. Hair cells- actual neural transducers- talk about a particular concept- characteristic frequency/tuning curve/fork- talk about the frequency codying by place cells and a temporal frequency encoding. The properties of the cochlea and basiliar membrane which results in a place-code or encoding, and how your cochlea or basiliar membrane.
