Sensory system tuning (filtering) and organization. All sensory systems are designed to extract information from the environment Sensory systems are usually selective Systems tend to focus on a range of what is available Range tends to be restricted to what is “biologically meaningful” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Sensory system tuning (filtering) and organization All sensory systems are designed to extract information from the environment Sensory systems are usually selective •Systems tend to focus on a range of what is available •Range tends to be restricted to what is “biologically meaningful” •Range is thus “tuned” based on the specificity of the ecological demands •Tuning tends to have an “optimum” or “best” stimulus •Deviation from this “best” yields less than optimal sensitivity Keep track of the origin of the tuning curve: it is behavioral or neural data. Katydid killer auditory tuning Parasitoid fly auditory tuning
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Sensory system tuning (filtering) and organization
All sensory systems are designed to extract information from the environmentSensory systems are usually selective
•Systems tend to focus on a range of what is available•Range tends to be restricted to what is “biologically meaningful”•Range is thus “tuned” based on the specificity of the ecological demands
•Tuning tends to have an “optimum” or “best” stimulus •Deviation from this “best” yields less than optimal sensitivity
Keep track of the origin of the tuning curve: it is behavioral or neural data.
