2013 Sensory Physiology

What: stimulus modality

How (big): stimulus intensity

When: stimulus duration

Where: stimulus location

• the cortex is left with the task of assembling all of this information, and deciding why you should care about it!

• Information Processing
• Transduction
  • Receptor potential
  • Receptor types
  • Sensory unit
• Stimulus coding
  • Modality
    • Specificity
  • Intensity
    • Coding mechanisms
  • Duration
    • Adaptation
  • Location
    • Lateral inhibition