PSYCH 3240 Chapter 7: Textbook Notes

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3240
• Professor: June Pilcher

Document Summary

The visual system is by far the most thoroughly studied sensory. The sensory areas of the cortex are considered to be of three. The interactions among these three types of sensory cortex and among. 7. 1 principles of sensory system organization system and, as a result, the most well understood. As more has been discovered about the other sensory systems, it has become increasingly clear that they are organized in a way similar to the visual system. fundamentally different types: primary, secondary, and association. The primary sensory cortex of a system is the area of sensory cortex that receives most of its input directly from the thalamic relay nuclei of that system. Association cortex is any area of cortex that receives input from more than one sensory system. Most input to areas of association cortex comes via areas of secondary sensory cortex. other sensory structures are characterized by three major principles: hierarchical organization, functional segregation, and parallel processing.