1. Sensation and Perception
Definitions

2. What words do we need to know?
Sensation: any stimulus that comes from the world outside our brains.
Perception: the story your brain tells to explain the sensations.
Sensory Adaptation: getting accustomed to “bad” sensations.
Senses: the five specific ways in which we collect sensations.

3. Where do we perceive sensations?
Sight: eyes and occipital lobe.
Hearing: ears and temporal lobe.
Touch: PNS and sensory strip (parietal).
Smell: nose and parietal lobe.
Taste: tongue and parietal lobe (plus nose)
(Vestibular): inner ear and cerebellum.

4. Factors affecting perception:
Tiredness.
Outside substances.
Health.
Stress.
Busy-ness.
Cognitive bias/ expectations.
Cognitive: the way you actively think and judge (frontal lobe!).
Bias: prejudices.