PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vestibular System, Sound Localization, Ames Room
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September 23 - week 4 - chapter 10 & 11 notes. Sensation: sight: eyes, sound: ears, touch: skin, taste: tongue, smell: nose. Each of your senses has a sensory organ. Our senses allow our body to pick up physical signals from the environment. Each of these have a nerve ending that can be traced through the nervous system and eventually to the brain. Once signal is in the brain, it can be processed. Sensation is handled by the sensory organs, perception is handled by the brain. This is where perception occurs, where we perceive what our senses tell us. We do not experience raw incoming stimuli without this processing. Converts sound (pressure waves) into electrical pulses that go to the brain. This collection of sound in the ear is sensation. The translation of this into understanding in the brain is perception. The fact that we have two ears allow for sound localization.
