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• Sensation – when energy is converted to neural impulses.
• Psychophysics – study of relationship between sensation and what you perceive
• Signal detection – theory developed about the response bias.
• Elasticity of the lens – gets harder as you get older. Lens makes you focus.
• Retina – most important part of the eye, multilayered tissue that is in the back of your eye which contains rods and (dark) cones (light).
• Cones – color and light perception.
• Fovea – area on the retina with ONLY cones.
• Color blindness – when you don't have any cones, and can't see the colors
• Dark adaptation – when your rods need to adjust to the darkness
• Middle ear function – has bones, which vibrate to amplify the sound
• Cochlea – just like the retina, but in the ear, lined with hair cells, takes the information to the auditory cortex.
• Auditory cortex – receives info from cochlea
• Auditory localization – sound reaches the two ears at different speeds,......

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