PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Oval Window, Thalamus, Psychophysics

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

How do we sense our worlds: sensation, the sense organs" response to external stimuli and the transmission of these responses to the brain. It is an elementary experience such as colour or motion without the more. Initial gathering of information from the external world, responding, and: perception. Basic sensory processes: taste, gustation the sense of taste. Locating a sound"s origin is an important part of auditory perception: the sensory receptors do not code where events occur. Light first passes through the cornea (the eye"s thick, transparent outer layer) Cornea focuses incoming light in a process called refraction. Light rays then enter and are bent further inward by the lens, which focuses the light to form an image on the retina (the inner surface on the back of the eyeball: the lens is adjustable. To determine how much light enters the eye it either contracts or dilates (opens)