Quiz 4 Flashcards
Where your fear, anger, or embarrassment at falling will arise
Limbic System
Conscious perception and voluntary motor control
Cerebrum
Compares the sensory and motor information to coordinate the execution go movement
Cerebellum
Which of the following would be an adequate stimulus for a chemoreceptor
Alcohol
With the exception of olfaction, all sensory pathways first travel to the ___, which acts as a relay and processing station
Thalamus
This occurs with the olfaction neuronal connections and is called convergence and can be described as
How multiple primary sensory neurons synapse on a single secondary neuron
3 Properties of Odorants
Water Soluble, Low Polarity, Small Molecular Weight
Which of the following is NOT a somatosensory modality?
vision
The perception threshold describes the
concept that neurons higher in the sensory pathway can dampen the intensity of a stimulus
A neuron that has responded to a stimulus causes decreased activity in neighboring neurons in which process?
Lateral Inhibition
Why does there seem to be a link between smell and memory?
Smells get routed through the olfactory bulb which is closely connected to the amygdala and hippocampus (handle memory and emotion)
