PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Metatarsophalangeal Joint Sprain, Subjective Constancy, Olfactory Bulb
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Our senses encode the information our brains perceive. Sensation and perception appear to be one seamless event. Information comes in from the outside world, gets registered and interpreted, and triggers some kind of action: no breaks, no balks, just one continuous process. Psychologists on the other hand that sensation and perception are two separate activities. Sensation is simple stimulation of a sense organ. It is the basic registration of light, sound, pressure, odour, or taste as parts of your body interact with the physical world. Damage to the visual-processing centers in the brain can interfere with the interpretation of information coming from the eyes: the senses are intact, but perceptual ability is compromised. Our senses all depend on the process of transduction which occurs when many sensors in the body convert physical signals from the environment into encoded neural signals sent to the central nervous system.
