Exam 7: Sensation and Perception

"It is phylogenetically ancient and seems to serve the same functions in many other animals; it gives them the minimum amount of information that they need to know about a substance, even if that substance has never been encountered before". Which sensory modality is your text referring to?

Mechanoreceptors are responsible for the sense of balance.

Which of the following sequences correctly orders the structures along the visual pathway, from first to last?

With respect to sensory substitution, what does TDU stand for?

With reference to the use of Bayes' theorem to resolve ambiguities in vision, a __________ is to __________ as a 'symptom' is to 'causes'.

__________ signals the presence and encourages the consumption of sodium chloride, an essential element for proper neural functioning.

Which of the following sequences CORRECTLY reflects the order in which different structures are involved during haptic object recognition?

In 1992 Goodale and Milner proposed a new description of the dorsal stream as a __________ stream, which is specialized in unconscious action control.

Neurons in the visual area known as MT are particularly responsive to depth and direction cues.

Neuroscience studies the relationship between stimuli and neural responses.

Which of the following classes of cones responds selectively to greenish colours?

Which term defines the presentation of stimuli stimulating only one sensory modality?

Which of the following items is NOT an example of assumptions that can be used to resolve visual ambiguities?

Describe how alcohol intoxication can cause changes in the responses of vestibular receptors which produce symptoms such as nausea and dizziness.

Mark went to the cinema on a bright summer day. As he entered the dark screen room his vision was severely compromised until it slowly __________ to the dark environment.

The __________ represents the threshold between two sensory experiences (e.g. judging two weights as 'same' or 'different').

Which receptors respond to excessive heat?

Stimulus approach and avoidance, and substance edibility are both computations of __________.

According to the __________ explanation, individual unimodal activations are added together to create a combined response which is stronger than the activation evoked by unimodal stimulation. This may explain why performances using multimodal presentation are better.

__________ is the field investigating the neuro-cognitive mechanisms that regulate, among others, our ability to interact with co-specifics, understand their emotional and mental states, and create social bonds.