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Unit 3 – Sensation and Perception
Topic 3.7
What evidence contradicts the notion that all humans experience sensations identically?
All humans have same basic senses like sight, hearing,taste etc which help them interact with their environment effectively.
Variations exist among people in terms of absolute thresholds for different types of sensory input.
The pattern theory suggests that a particular pattern of neural firing corresponds with each unique sensory experience.
All humans have similar mechanisms for detecting physical energy from environment and encoding it into neural signals.
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