PSY280H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Olfactory Receptor Neuron, Tadoma
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This class: ch 13, 14: next class: ch 15, writing assignment due nov 29. Haptic feedback, applications: olfaction: physiology, sensitivity, neural circuits. Exam will be cumulative and will be a 2h exam with similar format to midterm: time will be a bit more constrained here. Introduction: components of touch, tactile: mechanical displacement of skin --> commonly thought of as touch, temperature, pain (incl. itch and tickling, body sensations (where body parts are, proprioception: perception of the body mediated by kinesthetic and vestibular receptors. Perception of the state of our body. Vestibular play role because it tells us our orientation of our bodies: somatosensation: a collective term for all sensory signals from the body (all of the above, plus the vestibular system), sensory organ for touch: skin. Largest sensory organ --> also provides a protective layer for the body. About 1. 8 square meters (19 square feet)
