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PSYC444 Sensation and Perception Homework 1 HW4(Week6): INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following questions by typing your answers into this document and saving it. Limit your responses to all questions to 1 page single or 2 pages double spaced double spaced (about 1000 words maximum). You may add diagrams or graphs to your answers if you so choose, they will not be counted as part of the page limit. To submit your answers on blackboard, go to the “Assignments” tab and select this assignment. Please cut and paste your numbered answers into the submission box. If you have pictures or figures in addition to text, submit them using the “Add Attachments” button. Question 1: Describe how the receptive field structure of neurons changes as visual information proceeds from the retina, through the LGN, and on to visual cortex. Describe how cells coding different stimulus features are organized into hypercolumns. Answer 1: Question 2: What is selective adaptation? How do contrast-sensitivity functions measured before and after selective adaptation differ? How are they the same? Answer 2: Question 3: What is tonotopic organization? What neural structures in the auditory system exhibit tonotopic organization? Answer 3: Question 4: What us the sensory homunculus? Who discovered it and how? What parts of the body are over- or under-represented in the sensory homunculus? Answer 4: Question 5: Compare and contrast olfactory adaptation with cognitive habituation. How are these phenomena similar? How do they differ? Answer 5:
