Structures and processes that acquire and transform information about external or internal conditions, including receptors, transduction and downstream neural processing.
Detection and processing of acoustic stimulation. Signal detectability depends on the receiver and background noise.
Interference with detection or discrimination of a sound by other sounds. Signal frequency, amplitude, timing and receiver processing can affect masking.
Sensory information about bodily position, movement and force, contributing to coordination and relations between seen and felt movement.
Quantitative study of the relationship between controlled physical stimuli and sensory performance or reports.
A framework separating stimulus discriminability from decision criterion in noisy tasks. Response bias and sensory sensitivity need not change together.
A function relating a stimulus variable to measured response probability or discrimination performance.
Detection and processing of volatile chemical stimuli.
A local site of converging sensory axons and interactions with postsynaptic cells. Molecular identity and other developmental mechanisms contribute to targeting.
A receptor involved in detecting odorants. Receptor identity is one component of the mapping from molecules to neural and behavioural responses.
Sensing based on light, including detection, discrimination and spatial processing.
Visual sensitivity to ultraviolet wavelengths. Its relevance to a colour comparison depends on the receiver’s actual receptors and the illumination.
A light-sensitive receptor protein associated with a chromophore. Sequence, expression, chromophore and neural processing all contribute to visual performance.
Dependence of a receptor or sensory response on wavelength. Define whether the measurement concerns a pigment, receptor, circuit or behaviour.
Processing and use of sensory input. Measured discrimination and subjective sensory experience are related but distinct targets of explanation.
A dependable relation between an action and its sensory consequences. A mirror generates tightly coupled visual changes that can support learning about the relation between body movement and reflected movement.
Experience considered from the experiencing subject's standpoint. Observable performance does not uniquely specify its qualitative character.
Study of sensory acquisition and use in the physical and ecological environments in which animals live.
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