PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rhodopsin, Fetus, Olfaction
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Cover all of the readings that you have, lectures conducted, videos assigned: We are able to detect ive incoming sensaions. Visual info is the one we most heavily rely on. Other species don"t rely on visual info as heavily as us. Olfactory = sense of smell evolved irst. The sense other vertebrates rely most heavily on. Sooo the 5 senses: gustatory, visual, olfactory, auditory and touch. Vesibular system = responsible for balance (at the back of your ear). Some people include this as the sixth sense but really there is only 5 senses . The purpose of sensaion is transduce incoming info into a neural signal. Transduce = to change an incoming signal into a neural signal. Info comes in = u transduce it into something that u can think about. Being able to transduce all this complex info into something meaningful to us is a result of thousands of years of evoluion.
