Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Stirrup, Sound Localization, Opponent Process

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Synesthesia: experience sounds as colours and taste as touch sensation. We"re born this way and it"s a mixing of senses and undifferentiated neural pathways. Your brain is specialized for specific recognition and activity. With cross wiring, activity in one brain evokes responses in another brain dedicated to another sensation. Both of these result into the binding problem: how do we bind our perceptions into a whole while keeping its sensors separate. That dish smells so good and looks nice. Transduction: sensory receptors translate certain stimulates into nerve impulses. These nerve impulses help us understand what the stimuli is. Feature detectors: specialized neurons break down and analyze the specific features of the stimulus. These features are made into a neural representation. Its matched against our records, if something like that has been perceived before, we recognize the stimulus, otherwise it"s new.