PSYC 4008 Chapter : Sensory Psych Notes
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I will try to focus on events most clearly related to psychology. Some developments in 19th century physiology: most important: sensory physiology revealed the constructed nature of sensation and perception, other (more tangentially related): know, study of reflex action, localization of function, electrical nature of nerve impulses, the neuron doctrine. Phenomenology of sensation: phenomenology is the study of structures of conscious experience as it is perceived from the first person point of view, fundamental problem in psychology. In 1801 thomas young suggested that hue sensation could be accounted for by 3 different sensory nerves (the trichromatic theory of hue perception; elaborated by. In 1811 bell published experiments showing that the same stimulus applied to different sense receptors on the tongue (on different papilla) evoked different sensations. A c note sounds different on a guitar than on a flute; they"re impacted by the overtones: missing fundamental:
