Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Synesthesia, Psychophysics, Ganglion Cell
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Absolute threshold: the lowest intensity at which a stimulus can be detected correctly 50% of the time. Amplitude: the vertical size of the sound wave, which gives rise to the perception of loudness and is measured in terms of decibels. Basilar membrane: a membrane that runs the length of the cochlea and contains the organ of. Binocular cues: depth cues that require the use of both eyes. Binocular disparity: the binocular depth cues produced by the projection of slightly different images of an object on the retinas of the two eyes. Bipolar cells: the second layer of retinal cells with which the rods and cones synapse. Bottom-up processing: perceptual processing that begins with the analysis of individual elements of the stimulus and works up to the brain"s integration of them into a unified perception. Cochlea: a small coil-shaped structure of the inner ear that contains the receptors for sound.