PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Autism Spectrum, Auditory Masking, Spectrogram
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A dynamic and integrated process that combines information from sense organs with memories of past experiences, expectations of likely future actions, attention, motivation, and context. In this class we have covered visual perception inauguration of information that comes to your eyes. Today we focus on inauguration of information that comes to your eyes. We consider auditory contributions to perception and interaction between perception and cognition. Perception is how we use the information that our senses receive to make sense of the world. Starts with movement that displaces air, makes a change in air pressure at a specific place and a specific point in time. Over time (what we see in the graph at the bottom) Starts at the pinna (largest part of the ear the part that you can see, or the outer. This (cid:498)knocks on the door of(cid:499) the cochlea ear) Sound waves travel through the inner ear and create a vibration of the tympanic membrane/eardrums.
