PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Auditory Cortex, Two-Streams Hypothesis, Basilar Membrane

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Harvey Swadlow

Document Summary

By the amplitude of vibrations of basilar membrane. Determines how hard hair cells are pulled. Rutherford created the theory of the temporal or telephone . Auditory nerve carries info from hair cells into the brainstem. A multi-synaptic pathway leads to through dorsal thalamus to auditory cortex. Auditory cortex has topographic map of stimulus frequency and intensity. The ventral stream of the visual cortex. How a baby learns/understands its environment comes from experiences from within environment. Structuralism, like titchener and wundt says: yes. Used introspection to analyze perceptions into elementary sensations. You cannot understand the house by understanding the bricks. You must know the function of the house. The influence of darwinian: understand behavior in terms of it"s purposes. Unconscious inferences are used to recognize properties of objects. The whole = sum of the parts. Sensations are not the basic units of perceptions. Whole forms are be basic units of perception. Whole forms are produced by a process of perceptual organization.