Sensation and perception - Daniels units

Question 1

Pinna

Answer 1

the pinna is the part of your ear you pierce and is shaped in such a way that it helps to filter the sound into the ear canal toward the tympanic membrane

Question 2

Tympanic membrane

Answer 2

(eardrum) works like the surface of a drum and transfers energy to the three smallest bones in the body Ossicles

Question 3

ossicles

Answer 3

three smallest bones (malleus, incus, stapes) in the ear responsible for amplifying vibrations arriving in the eardrum and transmitting these signals to the oval window of the cochlea

Question 4

Cochlea

Answer 4

sounds processor of the inner ear, sounds are then transferred into the neural language of the brain

Question 5

Basilar membrane

Answer 5

tissue inside the cochlea where the hair cells are located

Question 6

Transduction

Answer 6

The process by which external sensations are converted into neural firing in the brain

Question 7

Loudness/volume of sounds corresponds to…

Answer 7

Amplitude of the wave

Question 8

Auditory hair cells

Answer 8

convert sounds into neural firings

Question 9

Sound Localization

Answer 9

is the process of determining location of a sound source often by auditory cues

Question 10

Binaural cues

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Auditory cues that require the process of comparison of information from both ears to determine objects location

Question 11

interaural time differences

Answer 11

Comparisons made between the small differences in arrival time of a sounds in each ear

Question 12

Place theory

Answer 12

The theory of audition that suggests we understands pitch because of the location of firing on the basilar membrane

Question 13

Frequency theory

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the theory of audition that suggests we understand pitch because of the rate of cellular firing on the basilar membrane

Question 14

Chemoreceptors

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Sensory cells in the nose that respond to air molecules that we interpret as smell and taste

Question 15

Olfactory mucosa

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The tissue that contains the chemoreceptors of the nose

Question 16

olfactory receptor neurons (ORN)

Answer 16

Neurons that are specially responsive to odorants

Question 17

Glomeruli

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The glomerulus is the basic unit in the odor map of the olfactory bulb. Each odor activates a different pattern of glomeruli

Question 18

Papillae

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Little bumps on the surface of the tongue where tastebuds are located

Question 19

Taste pore

Answer 19

Locations of taste sensitive cells on the tongue

Question 20

Orbitofrontal cortex

Answer 20

Region of the brain that analyzes both taste and smell

Question 21

somatosensory cortex

Answer 21

the location in the partial lobe where touch and motion are processed

Question 22

mechanoreceptors

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receptors in the skin that sense different kinds of pressure

Question 23

Merkel Receptor

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located close to surface of the skin and fires continuously while the skin is in contact with an object

Question 24

Kinesthetic Sense

Answer 24

Basic understanding of where our body is in space

Question 25

Vestibular sense

Answer 25

Also known as our sense of balance