Psychology 2220A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Phosphene, Monism, Olfactory Bulb

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2220A/B
• Professor: Jody Culham

Document Summary

Body sense = proprioception (info about body position & movement) Muscle spindles sense when muscle is stretched. Olfactory bulb sits right above naval chambers. Chemicals diffuse around nasal passage & bind to receptors in mucus membrane. Have synapses with neurons in olfactory bulb. Transduce into neural signal going to amygdala (scents are powerful memory producers) Sensory organ: tongue: papilla along surface of tongue. Principle 2: sensory info is ipped for the spatial senses. Eg; looking straight ahead, info will go to right hemisphere. Buzzing sound of y on left hand processed by both ears but signal is higher in right auditory cortex. Feeling of y on hand processed by right somatosensory cortex. If person moves hand to shake off y, command is sent from right hemisphere motor cortex. Light goes through pupil (like camera aperture) Focused by cornea & lens (like camera lens)