Sensation and Perception
An Introduction to Sensation and Perception
A learning goals checklist for you to keep in mind as you move through this section.
Check out this NOBA chapter on the fundamentals of sensation and perception.
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Touch and Pain
A learning goals checklist for you to keep in mind as you move through this section.
Dr. Christopher deCharms talks about the brain and pain in this video by TedTalks.
This NOBA chapter features the fundamentals of touch and pain.
Learn about and map your own homunculus.
These researchers hunt scorpions to isolate potential analgesics.
In this 2-Minute Neuroscience feature, learn more about phantom limb pain.
Vision
A learning goals checklist for you to keep in mind as you move through this section.
In this TedTalk, Dr. Oliver Sacks discusses hallucinations experienced by patients with Charles Bonneett syndrome.
This NOBA chapter features the fundamentals of vision.
In this 2-Minute Neuroscience feature, learn more about the retina.
Hearing (Audition)
A learning goals checklist for you to keep in mind as you move through this section.
In this 2-Minute Neuroscience feature, learn more about the cochlea.
This NOBA chapter features the fundamentals of hearing.
HHMI provides this visual demonstration of the hearing process.
Taste (Gustation) and Smell (Olfaction)
A learning goals checklist for you to keep in mind as you move through this section.
In this video, I eat miracle berries and discuss sensation and perception.
This NOBA chapter features the fundamentals of taste and smell.
In this 2-Minute Neuroscience feature, learn more about gustation.
Neuroscience Online details more advanced mechanisms of gustation and olfaction.
In this 2-Minute Neuroscience feature, learn more about olfaction.
Additional Content
Neuroscience Online offers this chapter on somatosensation.
Read about failures of attention in this NOBA chapter covering inattentional blindness.
Neuroscience Online offers this chapter on somatosensensory processes.
Neuroscience Online details more mechanisms for pain processing.
Learn about more advanced perception in this chapter from NOBA.
Neuroscience Online details more mechanisms for pain processing.
Neuroscience Online details the mechanisms for pain processing.
Neuroscience Online details the mechanisms of hearing.
In this Ted-Ed, learn about the science of phantom limbs from Dr. Joshua Pate.
Neuroscience Online details the cortical pathways of vision.
In this interesting lecture, Dr. Allan Basbaum delves into the science of pain.
Neuroscience Online details more advanced mechanisms of vestibular processing.
Neuroscience Online details more advanced mechanisms of auditory processing.
Neuroscience Online details more advanced mechanisms of vestibular processing.
Neuroscience Online details auditory processing at the cortical level.
This NOBA chapter features the fundamentals of vestibular processing.