PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thalamus, Visual Cortex

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2010
• Professor: Fred Switzer

Document Summary

There are two ways of interpreting the sense of vision, what we actually sense and how we perceive it (physical and psychological) In order to interpret the light that we see, our brains utilize transduction to make images appear. **transduction = conversion of one form of energy to another (light energy to energy we use for vision) Feature detectors neurons in visual cortex that respond to features. Parallel processing simultaneous processing for color, motion, etc. Paths there are t(cid:449)o separate paths, (cid:374)i(cid:272)k(cid:374)a(cid:373)es the (cid:862)(cid:449)hat(cid:863) path a(cid:374)d (cid:862)(cid:449)here(cid:863) path, that direct information through the brain to the correct receptors. The act of sensing position and movement of our body parts (ex: waving your hand behind your head a(cid:374)d (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g a(cid:449)are that it"s (cid:271)a(cid:272)k there a(cid:374)d (cid:373)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)g without being able to see it) Sense of body movement and position (ex: ability to balance, ability to pick up things, ability to catch things, etc. )