Sensation

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  • Created on: 18-12-23 17:17

1. What is the second stage of how photoreceptors create sensations?

  • Information from the left visual field goes to the right cerebral hemisphere and vice versa
  • All information from the eye meets at the optic chiasm which reroutes it to the thalamus, and then to the visual cortex.
  • Information from rods and cones is conveyed to ganglion cells (via bipolar cells) which sends info up the optic nerve to the brain
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2. One limitation of place theory states that below what frequency, no place on the membrane vibrates more, yet a person can still distinguish tones below this?

  • 1000Hz
  • 5000Hz
  • 100,000Hz
  • 50,000Hz

3. What is the first stage of how photoreceptors create sensations?

  • Information from the left visual field goes to the right cerebral hemisphere and vice versa.
  • Information from rods and cones is conveyed to ganglion cells (via bipolar cells) which sends info up the optic nerve to the brain.
  • All information from the eye meets at the optic chiasm which reroutes it to the thalamus, and then to the visual cortex.

4. Amplitude of the waves gives what?

  • The volume of sound
  • The pitch of sound

5. What is volleying?

  • When there is alternation in the firing of hair cells
  • How vision is measured
  • How sound increases brain plasticity

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