PSYCH 230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Visual Cortex, Retinal Ganglion Cell, Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
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Looking at a color evokes a certain tone. Pharrell williams hears musical notes when looking at colors. An event or physical event that can produce a sensory response. Light, temperature, pressure, touch, electricity, a molecule you can smell (five) mechanical sensory system. Touch: contact with or deformation of body surface. Smell: odorous substances dissolved in air or water in the nasal cavity. Taste: substances in contact with the tongue or other taste receptors. Common chemical: changes in co2, ph, osmotic pressure. Specialized neurons forming input organs that pick up the physical energy that is given off by the stimuli (pressure, heat, light, etc) Unusual receptors for infrared radiation, electrical energy, magnetic elds, ultrasonic sound. Completely determines the extent of information extracted from the outside world. Different types of information are picked up by different receptors and exported to the brain via specialized connection.
