PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Oval Window, David H. Hubel, Radiant Energy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: paniztavakoli

Document Summary

Sensation: receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment. Perception: sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. How we make sense of the data; the process of organizing and interpreting. We all seem to have the same sensory receptors. Yet, what you and i call experience or consciousness of the sensation seems to be quite different. Integration of the sensory features to form a percept". Processing takes place at a higher level. The three basic steps our sensory system enables: Receive sensory stimulation, often using specialized receptor cells. The process of converting one form of energy into another that our brain can use is called transduction. physical energy neural impulse. Sensory analysis that begins at the entry level, with information. Bottom-up processing: flowing from the sensory receptors to the brain. Previous experience and expectations affect the detection and analysis of information from the senses. Role of memory: compare incoming sensory input to what exists in memory.