Glossary T
Glossary T
Tolman, Edward Chace (1886_1959) theorist who created a brand of behaviorism that used mental constructs and emphasized purposive behavior. He has employed many intervening variables, but his most important was the cognitive map.
Tonal agnosia refers to an inability to appreciate melody in music and speech that is usually associated with damage to the right hemisphere of the brain
Tone chroma refers to the perceptual similarity of notes separated by one or more octaves.
Tonotopic map refers to an ordered map of frequencies created by the responding of neurons within structures in the auditory system. There is a tonotopic map of neurons along the length of the cochlea, with neurons at the apex responding best to low frequencies and neurons at the base responding best to high frequencies.
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