Sensory Perception Articles

• Educational Psychology
  Language Acquisition
  Perception
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Intelligence
  Healthy Aging
   

  Dyslexia

  Developmental dyslexia is a condition or learning disability which causes difficulty with reading and writing. Its standard definition is a difficulty in reading and writing in spite of normal ... > more
• Nervous System
  Neuroscience
  Psychology Research
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
   

  Neocortex

  The neocortex is a part of the brain of mammals. It is the top layer of the cerebral hemispheres, 2-4 mm thick, and made up of six layers, labelled I to VI (with VI being the innermost and I being ... > more
• Eye Care
  Sports Medicine
  Cosmetic Surgery
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Cosmetics
   

  Ocular dominance

  Ocular dominance, sometimes called eye dominance or eyedness, is the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other. It is somewhat analogous to the laterality of right or left handedness, ... > more
• Neuroscience
  Perception
  Intelligence
  Sleep Disorders
  Insomnia
  Brain Injury
   
  

  Electroencephalography

  Electroencephalography is the neurophysiologic measurement of the electrical activity of the brain by recording from electrodes placed on the scalp or, in special cases, on the cortex. The resulting ... > more
• Neuroscience
  Nervous System
  Psychology Research
  Sports Medicine
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Brain Injury
   
  

  Thalamus

  The thalamus is a part of the brain. The two thalami are located in the center of the brain, one beneath each cerebral hemisphere and next to the third ventricle. Functionally the thalami can be ... > more
• Animals
  Social Psychology
  Dogs
  Intelligence
  Autism
  Apes
   
  

  Mirror test

  The mirror test is a measure of self-awareness developed by Gordon Gallup Jr in 1970. The test gauges self-awareness by determining whether an animal can recognize its own reflection in a mirror as ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Psychology
  Sports Medicine
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Perception
   
  

  Emotion

  Emotion, in its most general definition, is a neural impulse that moves an organism to action, prompting automatic reactive behavior that has been adapted through evolution as a survival mechanism to ... > more
• Perception
  Nutrition Research
  Allergy
  Nervous System
  Human Biology
  Sports Medicine
   

  Taste bud

  Taste buds are small structures on the upper surface of the tongue, soft palate, and epiglottis that provide information about the taste of food being eaten. The human tongue has about 10,000 taste ... > more
• Neuroscience
  Perception
  Brain Injury
  Stroke
  Intelligence
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Cerebellum

  The cerebellum is a region of the brain that plays an important role in the integration of sensory perception and motor output. Many neural pathways link the cerebellum with the motor cortex, which ... > more
• Eye Care
  Perception
  Healthy Aging
  Sports Medicine
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Cosmetic Surgery
   
  

  Eye

  An eye is an organ of vision that detects light. Different kinds of light-sensitive organs are found in a variety of organisms. The simplest eyes do nothing but detect whether the surroundings are ... > more

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