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Exam 2 Flashcards

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Start of Sensory Information ;)

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What are the 8 sensory receptors?

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  1. Proprioception
  2. Touch
  3. Auditory
  4. Vestibular
  5. Vision
  6. Pain
  7. Taste
  8. Olfaction
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What are and what do “sensory receptors” do?

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Transduce a particular type of stimulus into electrical signals
stimulus –> electrical signals

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Are all ‘sensory receptors’ “energy” receptors?

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Yes
- ALL sensory receptors are converted into electrical signals because body can only understand electrical signals

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‘Proprioception’ receptors are what kind of sensory receptors?

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Mechanoreceptor

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‘Touch’ receptors are what kind of sensory receptors?

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Mechanoreceptor

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‘Auditory’ receptors are what kind of sensory receptors?

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Mechanoreceptors

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‘Vestibular’ receptors are what kind of sensory receptors?

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Mechanoreceptors

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‘Vision’ receptors are what kind of sensory receptors?

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Photoreceptors

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‘Pain’ receptors are what kind of sensory receptors?

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Chemoreceptors and Thermoreceptors

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‘Taste’ receptors are what kind of sensory receptors?

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Chemoreceptors

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‘Olfaction’ receptors are what kind of sensory receptors?

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Chemoreceptors

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What are “Mechanoreceptors”?

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Thy detect stimuli such as touch, pressure, vibration, and sound from the external and internal environments

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What are “Photoreceptors” receptors?

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They give us our color vision and night vision.
–> There are two types of photoreceptor cells: rods and cones.
–> They have/are special cells in the eye’s retina that are responsible for converting light into signals that are sent to the brain.

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What are “Chemoreceptors” receptors?

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They help detect changes in surrounding environment and such as smell and taste. (a sensory receptor)

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What do olfactory hair cells respond to? What receptor?

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They respond to concentration of chemical molecules in the air.
–> Chemoreceptor

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What do rod and cone cells respond to? What receptor?

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Rod and Cones are in the retina of the eye and respond to light.
–> Photoreceptor

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What do ‘Meissner’s corpuscles’ respond to?

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They respond to mechanical pressure.

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What does “proprioception” mean?

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Awareness of and about your body’s position in space.
- “Where is your my hand?”

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What are ‘action potentials’, and what do they send information about?

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They are ‘triggers’ that send long ranges or information in the nervous system such as info about light, touch, and heat.

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What helps ‘AP’s’ move?

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Myelin Sheaths

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What are ‘receptor potentials’?

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They are activated by sensory neurons by a stimulus like light, touch, and heat.
–> They receive a stimulus to create an AP.

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The path of a external stimulus to the brain. (hierarchy of the nervous system)

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External stimulus –> peripheral sensory receptor/axon –> spinal cord or medulla–> thalamus –> cerebral cortex

(sensory signals pass through many relay stations before gets to cerebral cortex)

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What is the role of the ‘thalamus’?

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The brain’s relay station.

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What ‘sensory receptor’ does not go to the thalamus?

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Olfactory
–> goes directly to the primary olfactory cortex

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What is a ‘receptive field’ of a sensory neuron?

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A region of space in which the presence of a stimulus will alter the firing behavior of the neuron.
–> Visual, somatosensory (tactile) and auditory system

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Is the size of receptive field ‘inversely’ or ‘equally’ proportional to the density of the fibers supplying that area?

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INVERSELY proportional

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If the receptive filed is big/wide you get “better” or “weaker” resolution and/but “more” or “less” preciseness/acuity/resolution?

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  • BETTER
  • LESS
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If the receptive filed is smaller you get “better” or “weaker” resolution and/but “more” or “less” preciseness/acuity/resolution?

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  • WEAKER
  • MORE
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What are ‘neuronal receptive fields’?

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The receptor area which when stimulated results in a response of a particular sensory neuron.

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‘Neuronal receptive fields’ … firing “increases” or “decreases” when stimulated in the center of the receptive field?

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INCREASES in the middle of receptive field

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‘Neuronal receptive fields’ … firing “increases” or “decreases” when stimulated in the surrounding area of the receptive field?

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DECREASES in the surrounding area of the receptive field
—> if you have bigger receptive fields its harder to tell the difference

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TRUE or FALSE: NO effects of stimulation occur if outside of the receptive field.

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True

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TRUE or FALSE: Receptive fields determine how neuron responds to sensory stimuli.

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True

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Transduction is the first step in the conversion of sensory stimulus to action potentials.

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TRUE —-> Sensory transduction is defined as energy transformation from the external world to the internal world.

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Where are the somas (cell bodies) located that are involved in transduction?

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Somas are outside the spinal cord in dorsal root ganglia

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What type of neuron is involved in transduction?

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‘Pseudounipolar’ which has 2 axon branches (peripheral and central)

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Peripheral branch is the ____ receptor.

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Sensory

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What does the “central branch” do on the pseudounipolar neuron?

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Terminates in spinal cord or medulla for cranial nerves

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What are the two type of “tactile mechanoreceptors” in the skin? What do they detect?

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  1. Superficial receptors - “feeling”, silk cloth on hand
  2. Deep receptors - “feeling pressure or something falling on you”
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What are the two “superficial receptor” types?

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  1. Meissner corpuscle - LIGHT touch and vibration
  2. Merkel discs - pressure
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What are the two “deep receptor” types?

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  1. Pacinian - HARD touch and vibration
  2. Ruffini corpuscles - stretch of the skin
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What do “free nerve endings” detect what throughout the skin?

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Course touch, tickle, and itch

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“Nocieceptors” are a free nerve endings that have no complex sensory structures and that respond to …

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Stimuli that damages or threatens tissues
–> these have different pathways compared to mechanoreceptors

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More superficial receptors have “smaller” or “bigger” and “more” or “less” dense receptor fields. They are rapid and “fast” or “slow” adaptive?

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  • smaller
  • dense
  • slow
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More deeper receptors have “smaller” or “bigger” and “more” or “less” dense receptor fields.

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  • bigger
  • less
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What are “muscle spindles”? What do they respond to?

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  1. A sensory organ embedded in skeletal muscle.
  2. stretch of muscle
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Muscle spindles consist of 1. intrafusal muscle fibers, 2. sensory endings, and 3. motor endings and DO NOT generate external force.
–> What are their functions?

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  1. Intrafusal: provide sensation
    - specialized sensory organs (proprioceptors)
  2. Sensory: respond to stretch (changes in length and velocity of change) and transduce and transmit sensations to the brain
  3. Motor: axons that deliver motor signals and signal for movement and motor control
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What are “intrafusal fibers” innervated by?

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  • motoneurons (tune sensitivity)
50
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What are “extrafusal muscle fibers”?

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Standard skeletal muscle fibers that are innervated by larger alpha motor neurons and generate tension by contracting, thereby allowing for skeletal movement.

51
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What are “extrafusal fibers” innervated by?

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  • larger alpha motor neurons
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What do “alpha motor neurons” do?

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Innervate skeletal muscle and cause the muscle contractions that generate movement. Motor neurons release the neurotransmitter acetylcholine at a synapse called the neuromuscular junction.

53
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Sensory endings have ‘large myelinate group 1a afferents’ and ‘medium myelinated group IIb secondary, fibers afferents’. What are their functions?

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Large : respond to rapid adaptions in muscle length (Velocity and direction of limb movements)
Medium : respond to muscle stretch (Sustained responses to constant muscle length changes and info. about the static position of limbs)

54
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Afferent

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Take away

55
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Efferent

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Moves towards

56
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What are “golgi tendon organs”?

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Senses and relays info. about how much force/tension the muscle is exerting on tendons.
- If there is too much muscle tension GTO will inhibit the muscle from creating any force (via a reflex arc), thus protecting the you from injuring itself.

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What are GTO’s innervated by?

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Group Ib nerve endings woven among collagen strands of the tendon

58
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In series with the extrafusal muscle fibers

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59
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What do “joint receptors” do?

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Respond to mechanical deformation of joint capsules and ligaments

60
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What 3 afferents are associated with joint receptors?
What do they sense?

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  1. Ligament receptors - type Ib afferents
  2. Ruffini’s and Pacinian endings - type II afferents
  3. Free nerve endings - types III and IV afferents

–> help understand where joint is in space and time

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Start of Visual Information :)

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What is the “Cornea” of the eye?

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At the front of the eye sclera
- Transforms into a transparent tissue that allows light rays to enter the eye

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What is the “Lens” of the eye?

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Transparent structure that focuses/adjusts light on the retina if we need to see closer or further away

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What is the “Sclera”?

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The fibrous outermost tissue layer

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What is the “Retina”?

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Receives light energy as photons and converts to –> electrical energy as AP’s
—> Has neurons that are sensitive to light and is in the back of the eye
—> Phototransduction occurs here

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What is “Phototransduction”?

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The process that occurs in the retina where light is converted into electrical signals that can be understood by the rest of the nervous system.

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What is the “Foeva”?

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Controls central sharp vision (highest visual acuity) like reading
- Gets excited by visual input right in front of the center of the eye
–> in the middle of the retina

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What is the “Macula”?

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has high visual acuity or resolution (clear, sharp)

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What is the “Optic Disk” or papilla?

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site of where the entry and exit of the ophthalmic artery =, vein, and nerve (retinal axons)
–> has NO photoreceptors = blind spot so doesn’t sense light and just act as a channel that allows info to just pass through

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Pathway of light going into the Retina

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  1. Cornea
  2. Aqueous humor
  3. Pupil
  4. Lens
  5. Venturous humor
  6. Retina
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*What do the “Ciliary muscles” do?

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Controls focus of the lens for looking at things far away clearly

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*What do the “Iris” muscles do?

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Control the amount of light entering the eye either by constriction by the sun or dilation by the night

73
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*TRUE or FALSE : fluid in the anterior chambers is drained and replaces multiple times a day and prevents pressure and eye disorders

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True

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*Failure of the anterior chambers to drain fluid can lead to what disease? ..

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Glaucoma which is a disorder that creates high pressure in the eye and damages retinal neurons

75
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Light energy receptors are called…

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Photoreceptors

76
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Within the retina, AP’s travel to central targets via ‘what’, and to ‘where’?

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What: Axons
Where: Optic Nerve

77
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*What is “macular degeneration”?

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The macula surrounds the foeva and it can create a blind spot on the eye if damaged

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What is the “Direct pathway” of info flow from photoreceptors to the Optic nerve?

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  1. Light
  2. Photoreceptors (rods and cones) on retina
  3. Bipolar cells
  4. Retinal ganglion cells
  5. Optic Nerve
  6. Brain
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What is the “Indirect Pathway” to the optic nerve?

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  1. Photoreceptors
  2. Horizontal Cells
    –> this enables lateral interactions between photoreceptors and bipolar cells
    –> maintains sensitivity for light contrast
80
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What are the two types of ‘photoreceptors’?

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  1. Rods
  2. Cones
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What are “Rods” responsible for?
Rod bipolar cells?

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Operating at low light levels (night time)
- have low acuity and low spatial resolution
- sensitive to light (even respond to a single photon) light info gets amplified (summed up) in dark conditions
- more indirect pathway connections
Rod biploar cell
- each receives info from 15-30 rods
- have high synaptic convergence

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Rods have how many photopigments?

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1

83
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  1. What are “Cones” responsible for?
  2. Cone biploar cell?
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  1. Operating at high visual acuity and color (brighter environments) in foeva
    - have highest acuity area in retina, central vision
    - have high spatial resolution
    - insensitive to light (100 photons are required to produce a
    comparable response)
    - more direct pathway connections
  2. Cone bipolar cell
    - each receives input from a single cone
    - love convergence
    - high spatial resolution (detailed images)
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Cones have how many photopigments?

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3 which are all sensitive to different wavelengths
- Blue (short) 5-10%
- Green (medium) varies between individuals
- Red (long) varies between individuals

85
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Do cones converge or do rods converge?

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Rods, making system a better detector of light and decreases the spatial resolution of rods

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A
87
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Photoreceptors respond to the absence of stimulus which hyperpolarizes with light and releases less NT’s

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88
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*Rods outnumber cones by 20:1 but cones are in higher concentration in foreva.

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89
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What are “Ganglion cells”?

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Respond to light stimulation on a small, circular patch of retina

90
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What are the two types of “retinal ganglion cells”?

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  1. On-Center cell
  2. Off-Center cell
    –> main purpose of the system is to define borders and edges
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“On- center cells” do what?

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Fire AP’s when light is turned on in the center
–> cell Depolarizes when light is put on it and increase in transmitter (glutamate) release = firing
–> Retinal Circuit for on center cells = Bipolar cells have graded potentials (NOT AP’s)
–> During light increment, photoreceptors Hyperpolarize and decrease in release of NT’s

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“On-Center bipolar cells” are sign inverting meaning they …

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Change in membrane potential is opposite that of photoreceptor
- Glutamate hyperpolarizes on-center bipolar cells
- When glutamate release decreases on-center bipolar cells are freed from hyperpolarizing influence of photoreceptors and they depolarize thus on center firing increases
- Reduction in light have opposite effects

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“Off-Center cells” do what?

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Discharge rate is reduced when light is applied to the center
–> cell hyperpolarizes when light is put on = not firing

94
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“Off-Center bipolar cells” are sign conserving meaning they …

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Change in membrane potential is same as that of photoreceptor
–> Graded depolarization from dark leads to increase in glutamate release thus off-center firing increases (glutamate depolarizes off center bipolar cells)

95
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On and Off center cells have different types of glutamate receptors which is why they respond to light and dark differently.

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96
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What are “Horizontal cells”?

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Receive inputs from photoreceptors and are linked via ‘gap junctions with other cells
- they reflect illumination over a broad retinal area but during ill. their role is minimal

97
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When the addition of surround illumination does the horizontal cells role get more prominent?

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Yes, because they hyperpolarize terminals of photoreceptors decreasing their rate of neurotransmitter release/firing when less contrast in receptive field center + surround

98
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In retina do photoreceptors exhibit action potentials?

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No

99
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What do photoreceptors respond to?

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Absence of stimulus

100
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Light activation causes graded change in membrane potential and a change in the rate of transmitter release on the POSTsynaptic neurons

A
101
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In the dark, photoreceptors membrane potential is around … mv?

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-40mV

102
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During a flashed light it causes hyperpolarization or depolarization? Does this increase or decrease NT’s release onto post-synaptic terminal?

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  1. Hyperpolarization of membrane to around -65mV
  2. decrease
103
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Scotopic and Mesopic refer to …

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Rods
- darkness

104
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Photopic refers to …

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Cones
- light

105
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*Phototransduction cascade..

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  1. Absorption of a single photon of rhodopsin (photopigment) results in the closure of approximately 200 ion channels
  2. Darkness causes = Ca2+ to open and depolarizes
  3. Light causes = Ca2+ channels to close, and K+ channels stay open and hyperpolarize
106
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Start of Visual Pathway Information! ;)

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TYPE UP ALL INFO

107
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Start of the Auditory System! :)

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108
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What is “sound”?

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The pressure waves generated by vibrating air molecules

109
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What are the four major features of sound?

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  1. waveform
  2. phase
  3. amplitude
  4. frequency = dull or sharp
110
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What happens when air molecules are disturbed?

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Change in density

111
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Sound that we hear is composed of many ____ waves.

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Sine = pure tone

112
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Auditory system converts sound stimulus into electrical signals (AP’s)

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113
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Sound info is integrated with info. from other sensory systems.

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114
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True or False: Auditory cortex can be influenced by nonauditory information such as during speech.

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True

115
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Which statements are true about the primary visual pathway?

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  1. Parvocellular can sense sustained light stimulation
  2. Magnocellular can sense to rapidly changing stimuli
116
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The perception of depth, which arises from viewing objects from two eyes rather than one, is called….

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Stereopsis

117
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True or False: Retinal ganglion cells have center-surround receptive field (respond to spots of light), and visual cortex neurons have elongated receptive field ( respond to bar light of different orientations)

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True

118
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True or False: The sensory information is segregated in the thalamus but is organized somatotopically in the ventral posterior complex

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True

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