PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Retina, Precognition, Thalamus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

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Psychology 101: sensation and perception (tuesday, october 2, 2012) *[read sensation and perception biological part in the textbook] Sensation is the process is which we take in the world around us: detecting the source and interpreting it in our brain. For the vast majority, it is a physiology concept. And perception is what we do with that information in our brain: it is unique and different, and what we depend on. Sensory perceptions: [*note] thalamus (within the brain) relay centre of the brain for sensory input and out put. Neurons are sending messages to the thalamus, and it detects light and vision information, sending it into parts of our brain that invoke our sensory perceptions. This allows the perceptual process, changing the energy type. Vision light waves are seen and then go through the brain through the thalamus. Sound (important sensory) a wave sensation: sending auditory information into the temporal lobe, in which the brain interprets learning and education.