PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Postcentral Gyrus, Detection Theory, Olfactory Bulb

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Michael Inzlicht

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Sensation: involves the detection of external stimuli, responses to those stimuli, and the transmission of these responses to the brain. Experience of the world sensing around you. Important to keep in mind: everything is experienced in your brain, the world you live in is constructed by you. Going from the world, to your brain: changing it to something you can understand in your brain. Stimuli need to be translated into chemical or electrical signals for your brain to. Transduction understand them: process by which sensory receptors pass impulses to connecting neurons when they receive stimulation. From pressure on the skin, in the case of touch. Most of this information (not smell) goes first to the thalamus, before being directed to a. How much of something does there have to be for us to notice it? particular part of the cortex, where the information is then interpreted as sense, touch: sensory thresholds.