PSYC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Synesthesia, Psychophysics, Retina
9 Mar 2018
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Transfer of info from one state to another ex: our sensory organs (eyes, radiation to chemical) Ears (pressure waves > neuroelectrical signal) there is an encoding process ( info encoded into anatomical code = neural impulses) (storage of this = memory) muller (1826) doctrine of speci c nerve energies. Each sense modality gives rise to dif. type of experience. Stimulation of eyes = visual experience regardless of how it happens (ex jamming ur thumb in ur eye) Stimulation of ears = auditory or sound no matter how stimulated (ex banging ur head n hearing da ring rings) ex: librarian . Has synesthesia > not having separate psychological experiences to neural stimuli. People who hear sounds tend to see colours as they hear them. Wanted to establish math relationship between stimulation of body andpsycho-stimulus. Put callipers on ur skin > vary the distance b/w two points (do they perceive it as 1 or 2 points)
