PSYB57H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Auditory Scene Analysis, Sound, Visual Search
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Practice quiz #1-3 what i did not understand. Photopigment: unstable pigments that undergo a chemical change when they absorb light. Pigmentosa: inherited degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment (of rod photoreceptor cells) Sharper tuning: to raise in pitch, especially by one chromatic half. Superior colliculus: part of dorsal midbrain, motor related, capable of activating eye movements (saccadic), directs head turns. Attentional blink: the second of two targets cannot be detected or identified when it appears too close in time to the first target. Change blindness: a change in visual stimulus occur and the observer does not notice it. Balints syndrome: inability to perceive visual field as a whole 3 cardinal symptoms: reduced spatial localization optic ataxia, reduced eye movements optic apraxia, stimultanagnosia. Timbre: sounds with same pitch and loudness may still be different (ex. Auditory stream segregation: perceptual groupings of sounds to form coherent representations of objects in the acoustic scene fundamental aspect of hearing and speech perception.
