AP PSYCHOLOGY

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION

BASIC CONCEPTS OF SENSATION AND PERCEPTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A visual neural impulse travels through this to get to the brain for interpretation:
A
auditory nerve
B
olfactory nerve
C
optic nerve
D
retina
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Optic nerve: This cranial nerve sends visual information from your retina to your brain. It consists of more than 1 million nerve fibers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The optic nerve transmits electrical impulses from your eyes to your brain. Your brain processes this sensory information so that you can see.

Detailed explanation-3: -Optic Nerve – carries the light impulses for sight from the retina to the brain. Retina – the most active area of the eye where the rods and cones are found. These receptors pick up the bits and pieces of the visual signals and transport them to the optic nerve for transmission to the brain.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the brain, the optic nerve transmits vision signals to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), where visual information is relayed to the visual cortex of the brain that converts the image impulses into objects that we see.

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