Exam 6: Sensation, Perception, and Adaptation

Phosphodiesterase is an enzyme that reduces cGMP concentrations.

The exaggeration of a superadditive neural response depends on ____________.

The smallest amount of pressure required for a person to detect a tactile stimulus 50% of the time is an example of ________.

Area V3 responds to ___________..

What is a context frame?

Bats use what sort of neurons to process their emitted sonar signal and the perception of the returning signal?

The magnocellular layers of the lateral geniculate provide information about the color of a visual stimulus.

Normally, the eyes of nocturnal animals have a(n) ________, a layer of tissue behind the retina that reflects light back through the retina.

The disruption of female mouse's pregnancy when it is exposed to the scent of an unfamiliar male's urine is termed ___________.

Saturation refers to the ________ of a light stimulus.

Though blind, Daniel Kish uses ________ to navigate in the world, even while on a bicycle.

According to the opponent process theory of color vision, what happens when "yellow" photoreceptors become fatigued?

The koniocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) provide information about the ___________ of a visual stimulus.

Firing of ganglion cells is considered a form of ___________ visual processing.

The ___________ contributes the "what" of a visual stimulus.

______________ fill in the visual gaps left by the blind spot.

Tactile body surface stimulation may help recovery of function in brain injuries.

Helen Keller's primary sensory modality for communication was ________.

The ________ consists of the vomeronasal organ (VNO) located in the nasal cavity and its neuronal projections to the accessory olfactory bulbs.

Why is it that dim stars in the night sky sometimes disappear when you look directly at them?