PSYC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Occipital Lobe, Gestalt Psychology, Sensory Threshold
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Sensation activity of eye, ear, skin, nose (sense organs: take in information and send it to the brain, transduction necessary process of transforming physical stimulus into electrical activity, ears transduce sound waves into electrical activity. Perception how does our brain make sense of that information: you do not actually see things as they exist in the real world, we see our brain"s perception of what is going on around you. It is very difficult to see it the other way: brain has to factor in lighting levels around you, color does not exist in the brain it is a production of the brain occipital lobe. One drop of perfume in the volume of 6 rooms: touch. Sensation of fly"s wing on a cheek from a distance of 4/100ths of a inch: hearing. Rods and cones are where the transduction occurs. Rods and cones have axions and terminal endings. They synapse with ganglion cells make edges look crisper.
