Exam 6: Sensation, Perception, and Adaptation

Which of the following is true of a cochlear implant?

Lateral inhibition emphasizes a visual feature called ___________ which help detect edges in a visual stimulus.

According to the Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory of color vision, specialized receptor cells respond specifically to medium, short, and long wavelengths of light.

Complex cells in V1 would respond to which stimulus?

The most densely populated area of ___________ is in the fovea, where our vision is the sharpest.

The whisker representations on the map of the rat somatosensory cortex are ________.

Why would environmental context influence the sensory abilities of separate species?

Which of the following is part of the auditory pathway?

The dorsal stream contributes information about the location of particular objects.

Projections from the auditory midbrain area to the ________ in the upper brainstem have also been identified as playing a critical role in echolocation.

Dim objects in the dark sometimes disappear when you look directly at them because_________________

Human ears respond to sound vibrations ranging from about 30 to 20,000 cycles per second.

The ________ is sensitive to contextual relations based on the presence of other objects.

Area V3 cells are involved in form analysis and color.

When a horse rolls its upper lip to detect the presence of pheromones, this is termed ________.

The visual photoreceptors found in the retina are referred to as ______________.

Hypercomplex cells in V1 would respond to which stimulus

An early mammal from the Triassic period, the Morganucodon's brain was approximately ________ bigger, relative to body size, than the brains of comparable reptiles.

________ interpreting sensory information about our environmental context.

The simultaneous integration of multiple sensory systems is called _______.