2012 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
      • Coding theories
    • Intensity
      • Coding mechanisms
    • Duration
      • Adaptation
    • Location
      • Lateral inhibition
• Transmission
  • Generic sensory pathway
  • Complex processing
• Perception
  • Awareness