PSY280H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Absolute Threshold, Response Bias, Sensory System
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Shahidullah) and will prefer her smell long before they can clearly see her (verendi, Porter, & winberg, 1994): they learn to prefer flavors that their mothers eat while pregnant and breastfeeding (mennella, jangnow, beauchamp, 2001). These sensations are transduced, or translated, by the sensory system into the electrochemical language of the brain. The brain takes a given message and combines it with previous experience to create a perception. For instance, the sensation of 675 nm of light reflecting from my water bottle is transduced by cells in my eye and my brain uses this information to perceive red - and a water bottle for that matter. * sensation is the process of detecting and encoding stimulus energy in the world by our sense organs. Imagine you are sitting in a room that is absolutely dark. On the far wall, i display a dim light.
