MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Otolith, Proprioception, Gestalt Psychology
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The process that occurs when the receptors in the sense organs (specialised kinds of neurons) are activated. The process of converting outside stimuli into neural signals. Allows us to understand the senses that we take in. A disorder in which the neural signals get processed in the wrong brain areas, resulting in the information being interpreted wrongly. Subliminal perception: below the level of consciously being aware of a stimulus. Habituation: getting so used to an unchanging stimulus that you block it out. You are still perceiving it, but the signals do not get transferred from the neurons to the cortex. Sensory adaptation: the neurons get so used to a stimulus that they themselves begin to block it out. Brightness is determined by the amplitude of the wave. Colour is determined by the length of the wave. Saturation is determined by the purity of the perceived colours.
