Sensory Adaptation - Reduced sensitivity to unchanging stimuli over time. The wavelengths that are reflected are transduced into a certain color. Different wavelengths of light are mixed in the eye. Seeing one color in the pair inhibits seeing the other color. Amplitude is transduced into loudness.
Frequency is transduced into pitch.
Wave complexity is transduced into tone quality. Hair cells on the basilar membrane are the receptors for hearing. Place theory - pitch is determined by the place on the basilar membrane where the hair cells vibrate. Frequency Theory - the basilar membrane triggers neural impulses that match the frequency of incoming sounds. Locating Sounds 1.