PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Habituation, Rhodopsin, Taste
Document Summary
Several types of receptors that are transducing several types of incoming information to. 300 ms for your brain to realize that someone has poked you relatively slow. Refex controlled in spinal cord faster than messages going to brain pain messages go. Heat is energy - temperature based on the amount of heat. Animals need to be able to detect which chemicals in environment are harmful or. Nervous system transducing incoming energy and turning it into messages between neurons. Ears detecting the movement of air and movement of molecules not specific as to which molecules are moving. 10lbs of molecules per square inch pushing on you in atmosphere. Somatosensory touch neural impulses to spinal cord. Olfactory and gustatory senses detecting chemicals specific molecules. Suspect that sense of smell developed first and is the most primitive because all the other senses we know go through the thalamus and processed through cortex smells go through nose to temporal lobes helpful.
