Ch. 5 Vocab (2nd half)

This carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain.

Spinal cord contains a neurological gate that blocks/allows pain signals to pass to the brain.

When the senses become joined.  Where one sense produces another.

Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if illumination changes.

The point of central focus in the retina.

The rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone. 

This is the sense of the body position and movement of the parts of the body.

Color theory that the retina contains three different color receptors which produce all colors.

The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time.

This is hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea or auditory nerve. 

In hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the location of the stimulated cochlea

The tiny hair cells that line the cochlea and start the process of transduction in hearing.