PSYC 2031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Oval Window, Stapes, Cochlea

• School: University of Denver
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2031
• Professor: Sweeny Timothy

Document Summary

The brain imitates how information is presented and transforms it into forms(representation) in our brain that we are able to understand. What our brain represent: odorants -- smell, nacl -- taste. Air pressure - sound - a bunch of hair follicles twisting. *anatomy limits what we sense and to some extent highlights what we need to perceive. We have three kinds of cons that allow us to see different things - long, medium and short. The more cons we have, the more colors we can sense. Tympanic membrane and oval window work like drums. Sound waves come in and the tympanic membrane reacts to it. Incus and stapes seek to amplify the sound: they push on the oval window into the inner ear (cochlea , lled with uid) Information goes through the inferior colliculus, medial geniculate and the thalamus to the auditory cortex. tonotopic organization is located in the cortex as well: goals of hearing.