PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Semicircular Canals, Astrocyte, Stirrup
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It allows people to ignore the obvious and focus on changes in the environment that may signal threats to safety. The eye: a living optical instrument: the eye serves two purposes: they channel light to the retina, and they house that tissue. Visual receptors: retina contains millions of receptor cells that are sensitive to light; but only. Perceiving forms, patterns and objects: the same visual input can result in radically different perceptions. Inattentional blindness is failure to see fully visual objects or events in a visual display leads people to focus on a specific feature in a scene while neglecting other facets of the scene. Sensory processing in your ear: the human ear is divided into three sections, the external ear: depends on the vibration of air molecules that are collected by the pinna which is a sound collecting cone. The ear"s neural tissue resides here and sits on the basilar membrane which runs the length of spiraled cochlea.
