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Midterm 1 Flashcards

1
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What is systems neuroscience?

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;ooking at all the parts of the brain that move together

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What is the key to understanding the brain?

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look at the functional anatomy

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What are the two principles of brain potentials?

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The Neuron Doctrine and the Law of Dynamic Polarization

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Who created the neuron doctrine and the law of dynamic polarization?

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Ramon y Cajal

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How did Cajal come to the neuron doctrine and the law of dynamic polarization?

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golgi staining approach

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What is the law of dynamic polarization?

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information goes in one direction in the form of electric potentials that travel down the axon and release NT

dendrite/soma –> axon –> axon terminal

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7
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What is Nitz’s favorite brain region? (Extra Credit!!!)

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somatosensory cortex

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What two systems are involved in the Pinocchio Effect?

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  1. somatosensory

2. proprioceptive

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What is proprioception?

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proprioception orients all the joints and limbs in space, the status of the muscles, allowing the animal to dissipate falling energy over time

It is your sense of self

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10
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What is the Pinocchio effect?

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A person holds his nose with hand, then scientists put vibration on arm tendon with the person’s eyes closed. This signals the muscle spindle afferent, giving the information to the brain that the arm is elongating, giving the illusion that the nose is extending.

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11
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Which of the receptor neurons activate in response to Glutamate?

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Bipolar neurons

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Name some functions of proprioception.

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  1. joint protecting reflexes (knee jerk)
  2. adjustment of muscle contraction/recruitment
  3. kinesthesia-detection of body position and movement
  4. coordination of motor commands
  5. possibly a sense of self, as distinct from everything else
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13
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Working hard is equivalent to greater electrical activity. (T/F)

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False

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14
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brain is first and foremost an ________ system

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electrical

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15
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Synaptic and action potentials are the same thing. (T/F)

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FALSE

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16
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What is the structure of the brain? (layers)

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(micro) synapses => neurons => nuclei (all cells contribute to produce some function) -> regions (macro)

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17
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What is the difference between synaptic and action potentials?

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Synaptic potentials have to do with amplitudes and durations and are continuous

Action potentials are an all or nothing event, binary.

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18
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Define membrane potential.

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The voltage difference between the intracellular space of a neuron and the surrounding extracellular space (includes resting, synaptic, and action potentials)

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19
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What is the equilibrium potentials?

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The membrane potential at which the net flux of ions across the membrane is 0 given the overall concentration of that ion on either side of the membrane.

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20
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What are the properties of ion channels?

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Properties of ion channels:

  1. Ion selectivity
  2. gating, e.g. voltage, ligand
  3. Kinetics e.g. open-time
  4. state-e.g. activated, inactivated, deenactivated, persistent
  5. distribution-e.g., in dendrites at the axon hillock
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21
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What does the Nernst equation do?

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  • used to determine the equilibrium potential

- relates ion concentration gradients to electrical charge gradients

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22
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Action potential conduction speed is a function of ____ and ____

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axon length, myelination

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23
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Neurotransmitters exist within what type of potential?

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synaptic

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24
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What are the three basic types of neurotransmitters?

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  1. excitatory
  2. inhibitiory
  3. neuromodulatory
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25
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What is topographic representation?

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-neurons in the brain are anatomically arranged in a systematic fashion that those responding to similar features of a single sensory modality are grouped into the same area of the brain

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26
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Which of the mechanoreceptors are slow adapting/sustained?

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Merkel disks, SA2’s

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27
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Which of the mechanoreceptors are rapidly adapting/transient?

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Meissner corpuscles, Pacinian corpuscles

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28
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What is the sequence of dynamics within the brain?

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synaptic and action potentials (micro) –> field potentials/EEG -> fMRI (macro)

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29
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What are the functions of the dorsal root ganglion cell?

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  1. receiving and transducing external energy

2. sending that activity to the brain

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30
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The dorsal root ganglion cell types are:

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  1. mechanoreception and proprioception

2. thermoreception and nociceptors

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31
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What are Dorsal Root Ganglion Cells?

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  1. group on either side of the spine
  2. takes information from the body to the spinal cord
  3. splits at spine and goes to brain
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32
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What is a muscle spindle afferent?

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  • proprioceptive receptor
  • sense movement in joints
  • gamma motor fiber -> contractile -> sensory fiber (non-contractile) -> contractile
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33
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What are sensory organ receptors?

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Across sensory modalities, anatomical features of sensory organ receptors determine the dynamic activity and within a modality, the type of sensory information they convey

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34
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What is the golgi tendon organ?

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-registers tendon stretch = muscle contraction

35
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What did they find in the Hubel and Wiesel experiment?

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left and right eye organizes visual input from the lateral geniculate nucleus and that hte other dominance column is layered over the retinotopic map

36
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What did they do in the Hubel and Wiesel experiment?

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  • Kittens either had one of their eyes sewn shut or had one of their eyes taken out
  • kittens were allowed to dvelop and then sacrificed
  • V1 cortex was taken out and stained
37
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What enzyme did they use to to stain the V1/second egocentric map in the Hubel and Wiesel experiment?

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cytochrome oxidase

38
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What is the first egocentric map and what does it tell us?

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  1. retinotopic map

2. organization of neighboring cells in the retina projecting to respective neighboring cells in the LGN and V1

39
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What is the third egocentric map?

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  • refers to the orientation tuning “pinwheels”

- pinwheels tell which orientation of a bar or light or stimuli the neurons like

40
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Why is the intersection in the third egocentric map important?

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-tells us that neurons that respond to different orientations are adjacent to one another and grouped together

41
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What are the main properties of the retinotopic map?

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  • space on the visual field yields responses to space in the retina (space in the LGN)
  • everything in the visual field projects to the opposite direction in V1
42
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Parvocellular cells are in layers ____ - ____ of the LGN

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3 - 6

43
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Magnocellular cells are in layers ___ - ____ of the LGN

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1 - 2

44
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Where are the koniocellular layers located in LGN?

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-between the X and Y layers

45
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Color input is distributed homogeneously. (True/False)

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False

46
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All regions of V1 get output from the koniocellular layers. (True/False)

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False

47
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Where do the koniocellular layers project to in the striate cortex?

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Layers 2-3

48
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What are the main properties of the Ocular Dominance Columns map?

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  • cytochrome oxidase in the normal eye picks up the stain and turns black
  • information from the left and right eye is mapped to the LGN and V1
49
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What are the main properties of the Orientation Tuning Wheels map?

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  • Different neurons like different orientation sof bars of light or stimuli
  • adjacent neurons in V1 fire to adjacent degrees of bars, showing pinwheels
  • pinwheels are in the center of ODC
50
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What are the main properties of the color map?

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  • koniocellular cells responds to color in blob like fashion
  • only layers 2 and 3 of V1 receive this input
  • blobs are in the center of the ODC
51
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As you move further from the V1 and closer to the “what pathway”…retinotopy begins to _____.

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decline

52
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As you move further from the V1 and closer to the “what pathway”…receptive field begins to _____.

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increase

53
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As you move further from the V1 and closer to the “what pathway”…generalization of stimulus features like color and shape begins to _____.

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increase

54
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What are the functions of V5/MT? What pathway is it in?

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  1. movement and direction 2

2. where pathway

55
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What are the functions of MT/MST (medial superior temporal? What pathway is it in?

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  1. optic/depth, vestibular flow, and trajectories

2. Where pathway

56
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What are the functions of the VIP (ventral intraparietal)? What pathway is it in?

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  1. brings visual and somatosensory systems together in the parietal lobe
    - neurons fire to a stimulus in the visual field corresponding to the sensory body map of the head
57
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What are the functions of the V4 ? What pathway is it in?

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  1. distinguishes if something is part of a figure or background
    - depends if parts move in synchrony
  2. what pathway
58
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What are the functions of the IT (inferior temporal)? What pathway is it in?

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  1. recognizing objects, including faces
    - TE and TEO refer to the anterior and posterior region ss of IT, respectively
    - damage leads to prosopagnosia
  2. what pathway
59
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Merkl disks produce _______ responses and best process _______ and ______,

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sustained; fine touch and edges

60
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Meissner corpuscles produce ______ responses and best process ______ and ________ vibrations

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transient; slip and low frequency vibrations

61
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Where do we get convergence of sensory information from different mechanoreceptors?

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-directs the sensory information to the primary somatosensory cortex to be processed and coverge with one another

62
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Excitatory and inhibitory inputs from one neuron (axon terminal) onto the other (dendrite) generate ___________ .

A

synaptic potential

63
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When the temporal and spatial integration of synaptic potentials on a neuron exceeds a certain threshold, it generates ________.

A

action potential

64
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Action potential conduction speed is a function of _______ and ________.

A

myelination and axon length

65
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________ potential is a special case of ________ potential which occurs when the net influx of ions across the neuron membrane is 0.

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Equilibrium, membrane

66
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Information exchange between neurons through generation of synaptic potentials is mediated by _______.

A

neurotransmitters

67
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In terms of their functionality (effect on the post-synaptic cell) , they can be divided into three types: ______, _____, and ______.

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excitatory, inhibitory, and neuromodulatory

68
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The neurotransmitter GABA (2 things)

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is inhibitory and opens Cl- channels

69
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Generator potentials are analogous to [synaptic]/[action] potentials

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synaptic

they result in action potentials if they achieve a certain threshold

70
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Vestibular system has two functionally different structures that register the movement and static position of the head. ______________ registers rotational velocity of the head, where as _______ registers the linear translation and static head position.

A

Semicircular canals, otolith organs

71
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The two mechanoreceptors Pacinian cells and Meissner cells are both sensitive to vibration. However, they differ in terms of the _____ they are sensitive to. Pacinian cells are sensitive to _____ _____ vibrations, whereas Meissner cells are sensitive to _____ ______ vibration.

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frequency, high frequency, low frequency

72
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The fine texture discrimination during tactile sensation is mediated by _______, which have ______ -adapting responses to stimulus.

A

Merkel disks, slowly

73
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To which layers of the cortex does the information from the mechanoreceptors arrive?

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Merkel: layer 2 (slowly adapting)

Meissner and Pacinian: layer 4 (rapidly adapting)

74
Q

Microslip events are best detected by the _______ ________ of touch receptors

A

Meissner corpuscle

75
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Photo-receptors -> ______ -> ______ -> Optic Nerve

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—-> bipolar —-> ganglion —–>

76
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How do ON-bipolar cells respond to glutamate and release light?

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Glutamate release - hyperpolarize; light - depolarize

77
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Light causes photoreceptors to ______ and release ______ glutamate

A

hyperpolarize, less

78
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How does an off bipolar cell work?

A

reduced glutamate when exposed to light release onto the OFF bipolar is, effecetively, the removal of an excitatory (Depolarizing influence), bipolar cell hyperpolarizes

79
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How do OFF-bipolar cells respond to

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Glutamate release - depolarize ; light - hyperpolarize

80
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Ganglion cells of which type have responses to light that are analogous to Pacinian corpuscle responses to touch?

A

Magnocellular (Y-type) which ha transient responses to light

81
Q

Recordings of neurons along ______ trajectories through visual cortex yield neurons with different directional tuning preferences.

A

oblique

82
Q

On an otherwise dark field of view, light in the form of a plus sign in the upper left field of view will excite neurons in the _________

A

right-lower V1

83
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Damage to the dorsal pathway impairs ________

A

visual spatial abilities

84
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Damage to the ventral pathway impairs

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object identification

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