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| A collective term for sensory signals from the body. |
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| Sensations caused by mechanical displacements of the skin. |
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| Perception of temperature changes. |
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| Perception of position and movement of limbs, muscles, tendons, and joints. |
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| Perception mediated by kinesthetic and vestibular receptors. Position of body relative to other things. |
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- Warning system for potential internal damage or dangerous external stimuli.
- Thermally safe environment
- Nonverbal communication
- Manipulate objects that cannot be seen or heard. |
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| Touch Receptor Characteristics |
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- In epidermis and dermis
- Type of stimulation
- Size of receptive field
- Rate of adaptation |
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- Merkel Neurite Complex
- Steady downward pressure
- Fine spatial details
- Pattern perception
- Good for reading braille
- Good for slotting a screw
- Low vibrations |
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- Ruffini Ending
- Sustained downward pressure
- Lateral skin stretch
- Finger position and grasp
- Good for grasping a tea cup |
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- Meissner Corpuscle
- Best for low frequencies
- Sense temporal changes in skin
- Sense if an object is heavy |
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- Pacinian Corpuscle
- High frequency vibrations
- Sensing when an object makes skin contact
- Sensing when you're holding an object |
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| Two-point Touch Threshold |
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| The minimum distance at which two stimuli are just perceptible as separate. |
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- Minimum separation at which two stimuli are just perceptible as separate.
- Vision > Touch > Hearing |
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- Whether two tactile pulses appear to be either simultaneous or successive in time.
- Hearing > Touch > Vision |
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| Adjacent areas of skin connected to adjacent areas in brain. |
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- Cortical remapping
- The ability of the brain to change as a result of one's experience. Refers to the brain as "plastic" |
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| Knowledge of the world that is derived from sensory receptors in the skin, muscles, etc involving active exploration. |
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| Stereotyped hand movement pattern used to contact objects in order to perceive their properties. |
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| Lateral Motion Exploration |
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| Side to side hand movement. Texture. |
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| Senses global shape, volume. |
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| Contour Following Exploration |
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| Senses global shape, exact shape. |
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- Stimuli for odors are chemical compounds
- Small
- Volatile
- Hydrophohic |
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| Humans vs. Dogs Olfaction |
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Humans: 20 mil OSN
Dogs: 220 mil OSN
Humans: 0.1% brain
Dogs: 5% brain |
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- Length of ordorant: Longer = Better
- Gender: Lower for women
- Age: Younger = Better |
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| Discriminate thousands of odors |
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| Remember whether or not we've smelled something before. |
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| Staircase Psychophysical Method |
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| Concentration of ordorant increased/decreased. |
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| Triangle Test Psychophysical Method |
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| 3 ordors. 2 same, 1 different. Identify the different one. |
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| Tip of the nose phenomenon |
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| Scent is familiar, but can't come up with the name for it. |
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- Ipsilateral connection between sensory receptors and brain.
- Left = More words
- Right = More pleasant |
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- Liking a smell
- Familiarity (linear)
- Intensity (non-linear) |
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| Born with predisposition to smells. |
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| Liking a smell is determined by experience. |
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| Avoidance of a novel flavor after it has been paired with gastric illness. |
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| Odors do not elicit more accurate recollections than other modalities, though they are more emotional. |
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| Opening in a taste bud through the mucosa. |
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| Contained within a taste bud. |
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| Anterior portion, no taste function. |
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| Anterior, visible. Like mushrooms. |
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| Sides of tongue, look like folds. |
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| Large circular structures. Make a 'V'. |
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- Cation + Anion
- Used for nerve and muscle function
- Preservation not static |
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- Quinine
- Many bitter things are poisoness. |
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- Evoked by sugars
- Glucose
- Saccharin & cyclamate found by mistake. |
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- The idea that a deficiency of a given nutrient will produce a craving for it.
- Limited to sweet & salty. |
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| Individual who perceives the most intense taste sensations. Usually denser fungiform papillae. |
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| The ability to perceive an object across modalities. |
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| Learn a discrimination problem in one modality and have it transfer to another. |
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| Present a sample in one modality, then remove it. Present it in another. |
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| Rabbit Cross-modal Transfer |
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- Rhythm (Vision / Hearing)
- Shocking / lights |
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| Bushbabies Cross-modal Transfer |
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- Rhythm (Vision / Hearing)
- Go / No Go
- Long time to learn reverse |
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| Chimp Cross-modal Matching |
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