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The senses - Coggle Diagram
The senses
Vision
Gestalt
Figure ground
foreground: figure
Ground: background
Grouping principles
proximity
Continuity
perceiving separate things as one
Similarity
Closure
helps with reading
Mind completing a pattern
Kinesa illusion
Good form
Depth perception
Monocular Cues
Single eye depth perception
Relative motion
motion parallax
Relative height
Relative size
Interposition
understanding overlapping objects
Light and shadow
Linear perspective
Binocular Cues
Double eye depth perception
Retinal disparity: each eye has its own perspective
Switching eyes shifts the distances between objects
Convergence
flexing in eye muscles determine depth
Visual cliff tests for DP in babies
Perceptual constancies
Size constancy
Objects moving closer grow in image and vice versa
Shape constancies
angel changes doesn't change the shape
Color constancy
shadow makes things darker and vice versa
Brain pathways
Parietal Lobe
Where understanding
Temporal lobe
What understanding
Perceptual adaptation
changes in sight can be adapted to
Late vision
Bottom up processing
Processing things without prior knowledge
Top down processing
Processing things with prior knowledge
Audition
Sound
vibrations in the air
Ear anatomy
Auditory cortex
Processes complex relevant sounds
Animal noises
Footsteps
Fine tuned by experience
Language
Broca's area
Music
Heschl's gyrus
Amusia: inability to discern tunes
Deafness
Central deafness
From brain damage
Conduction deafness
Ear fluid doesn't work
Sensorienural deafness
Damage to hair cells in the inner ear
Taste: gustation
Taste
Saltiness
Bitterness
Sour
Umami
Sweet
Papillae: Taste bud
2000-5000 buds
50-150 receptors per bud
Taste pores
2 weeks cell lifespan
The Brain's eye
Understands in..
electricity
chemicals
This is called transduction
Accommodation
bends light to the phobia
Zonal fibers adjust lenz
Myopia is farsightedness
Hypermetropia is farsightedness
astigmatism is a deformity of the lenz: double vision