Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Basilar Membrane, Auditory Cortex, Color Vision

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

Document Summary

May experience sounds as colours or tastes as touch sensations that have different shapes. Women are more likely to be synaesthetes than men. One activity in one part of the brain evokes responses in another part of the brain dedicated to another sensory modality. Word-colour linkages hearing certain words is associated with neural activity in parts of the visual cortex doesn"t occur. Overflowing into other sensory areas and stimulating them. Transduction: sensory receptors must translate this information into the language of nerve impulses. Feature detectors: specialized neurons called feature detectors break down and analyze the specific features of the stimuli. Numerous stimulus pieces are reconstructed into a neural representation that is then compared with previously stored information, such as our knowledge of what particular objects look, smell, or feel like. This matching of a new stimulus with our internal storehouse of knowledge allows us to recognize the stimulus and give it meaning.