PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Richard Axel, Mucous Membrane, Linda B. Buck

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: meghannorris

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Describe how the structure of our auditory system affects the way we interpret the world around us. Describe the auditory system from ear to cortex. Describe how sounds waves are translated by our auditory system into psychological characteristics. Explain how pitch, loudness and timbre are coded. Explain how the chemical senses work together and the relationship among the olfactory system, our emotions and our memories. Describe how your sensitivity to touch is reflected in the homunculus. Describe the kinaesthetic and vestibular senses and their practical significance. Topic 2: the neural coding of pitch, timbre, and loudness, and spatial location of sound. Explain how the physical characteristics of sound are perceived by our brain. Describe how chemical signals are translated by our olfactory and gustatory senses into psychological characteristics. Describe the somatosensory system from periphery to cortex. This vibration causes adjacent air molecules to become compressed into local regions of increased pressure, and rarefied in local regions of decreased pressure.