PSYC 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Somatosensory System, Auditory System, Dermis

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 251
• Professor: Adam Krawitz

Document Summary

Connectomics : the study of connections of different structures within the brain. Tractography: random spot is selected and then the direction of diffusion is determined (not a perfect method) Network graph: each brain area is connected to another section what is connected to what. Connectivity: which brain areas are the most connective. Perception: the experience that result form stimulation of our sense as well as the processes that allow us to perceive our world what is out in the world is not the same thing as what we perceive. Perception is trying to correctly interpret how we perceive the world, however our sense are limited. Inverse problem: trying to distinguish the proximal stimulus from the distal stimulus: distal stimulus: the actual object out in the world, proximal stimulus: what we are interpreting. Sources of info experiences, genes, our internal state (our emotions), environmental context, and the stimulus itself (proximal)