Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Visual Cortex, Detection Theory, Basilar Membrane

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Sensory processing: stimulus received, transduction: stimulus is translated by sensory receptors into nerve impulses, feature detectors: break down and analyze specific features of a stimuli. Types of neurons: pieces are reconstructed into neural representation, compared with previously stored info, matching process for recognition and interpretation of stimuli. Synesthesia: mixing of senses: experience sounds as colours or tastes as touch, etc, more common in women, maurer and mondloch: We are born synaesthetic (neural pathways are undifferentiated which can lead to cross-modal perceptions: different parts of the brain are specialized in different functions. Cross-wiring -> activity in one part leads to responses in another dedicated to a different sense: theories: Some pruning (removal) of neural connections that occur at infancy did not occur -> parts of brains has connections that normal people don"t have. Deficit in neural inhibitory processes that usually keep one sensory modality from overflowing into another causing stimulation.