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Sensory organs Flashcards

1
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Increasing the amplitude of a stimulus increases…

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The frequency of action potentials of the afferent fibres

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2
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Modality

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A particular form of sensory perception

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Give the classifications of receptors according to: Receptor

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  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Tertiary
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Give the classifications of receptors according to: Localisation of stimulus

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  • Exteroceptors
  • Interoceptors
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Give the classifications of receptors according to: Form of energy of the stimulus

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  • Mechanical
  • Thermal
  • Photo
  • Chemical
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Give the classifications of receptors according to: Type of perception (modality)

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  • Touch
  • Warm
  • Cold
  • Pain
  • Light
  • Sound
  • Taste
  • Smell
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Give the classifications of receptors according to: Adaptation

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  • Fast (Dynamic/phasic)
  • Slow (Tonic/static)
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Primary receptor

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Stimulus elicits a direct conformational change to the channels of the neuron

E.g Olfaction

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Secondary receptor

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Stimulus is sensed by the second cell of sensation, cation channels then open

E.g sound reception: 1. hair cell, 2. auditory nerve

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Tertiary receptor

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Afferent nerve fibre belongs to only the third cell involved in stimulus transduction

E.g 1. Rods + cones, 2. Bipolar cells, 3 Ganglion cells

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11
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Give the types of receptor

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  • Free nerve ending
  • Pacinian corpuscle
  • Golgi tendon organ
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12
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Give an example of an exteroceptor

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Pain/temperature receptors of the skin

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Pacinian corpuscle

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Member of the exteroceptors functioning by no free nerve endings

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14
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Golgi tendon organ location

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  • Found at the border of the tendon and muscle
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15
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Why are receptors also known as transducers?

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Mechanical stimulus may evoke an electric response

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16
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Generator potential is conducted with…

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Decrement/possible information loss

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17
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Information that has been transformed

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  • Travels at a high speed
  • Frequency coded manner
  • Safer
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18
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Give the temp/AP frequency relationship

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19
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Title the figure

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Skin temp. and AP frequency in various fibres

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20
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Skin temperature

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21
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Cold fibre

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22
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Warm fibre

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23
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Heat is sensed by what kind of system?

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Dual receptor system

  • Warm receptors (receptive between 30-45°C)
  • Cold receptors (receptive between 15-42°C)
  • 2x more cold receptors than warm
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24
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What is unique about olfaction?

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  • Fast adaptation to stimuli
  • High differential threshold
  • Difficulty in locating the source
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25
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What are the receptor cells of the olfactory mucosa?

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Bipolar neurons

The only primary receptor cells of higher organisms

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26
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Describe the receptors of the olfactory mucosa

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Receptor cells project cilia into the mucous layer

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27
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What are the thinnest nerve fibres of the body?

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Myelinated axons leaving the olfactory mucosa

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28
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Primary olfactory neuron

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29
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Mitral cells

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30
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Olfactory bulb

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31
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Primary olfactory cortex:

  • Amygdala
  • prepyriform area
  • Olfactory tubercle
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32
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Tufted cell:

Contralateral olfactory bulb

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33
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Taste is the reception of…

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Substances in liquid phase

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34
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Function of filiform papillae

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Mechanoreceptors

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35
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Function of fungiform papillae

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Respond to a stimulus quickly

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36
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Fossa gustatorica

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37
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Give the types of taste combinations

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  • Sweet
  • Salty
  • Sour
  • Bitter
  • Umami
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38
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Glands of Ebner

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  • Found at the bottom of foliate & circumvallate papillae
  • Serve as quick ‘washing out’ of chemical substances
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39
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As well as spatial orientation, light has an impact on…

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Behaviour & sexual activity

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40
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How many colour qualities are distinguished in primates?

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2 million

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41
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For some animals (mainly hunting at night), what is the function of the pigment layer in the eye?

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Augmentation of light-reflection

Not to absorb light

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42
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The phenomenon of increasing the ability or orient in the dark but reducing sharpness of vision

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Tapetum lucidum

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43
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The function of pigment cells

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Light absorption

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44
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Rods + cones functions

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  • Rods: Light sensitivity
  • Cones: Colour-sensing
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45
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The synaptic part of rods + cones is connected to…

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Bipolar cells

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46
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Give the order of the layers of the retina (from the pigment cells)

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  1. Pigment cells
  2. Rods + cones
  3. Bipolar cells
  4. (Amacrine cells)
  5. Ganglion cells
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47
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The fovea of the eye contains…

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Cones only

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48
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The outer segment of rods and cones contains…

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Light-sensitive pigment

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49
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The fovea doesn’t absorb…

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Blue light

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50
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No rods and cones are found in the…

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Blind spot (Where the optic nerve exits)

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51
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Rods

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52
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Cones

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53
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Blind spot

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54
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Fovea

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55
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Function of the lens

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  • Refraction of light to be focused on the retina
  • Changes the focal distance
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56
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What suspends the lens?

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  • Suspensory ligaments
  • Circular sphincter muscle
  • Dilator muscle of the pupil
  • Choroid plexus
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57
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Function of choroid plexus

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Secretion of aqueous humour

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58
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Physiology behind glaucoma

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  • Obstruction of the circulation of aqueous humour
  • The increase of intraocular pressure
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59
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Give the refraction points of vision

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  1. Air-cornea
  2. Cornea-aqueous humour
  3. Aqueous humour-lens
  4. Lens-vitrous humour
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Diopter

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The reciprocal of the anterior focal distance given in meters

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61
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Images of Purkinje-Sanson

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Images of light appears on the refractive surfaces of the eye

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62
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Beams arriving obliquely from an infinite distance intersect in a plane at the same distance as the…

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Rear focal plane

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63
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To focus on an object at a larger distance, the convexity of the lens should be…

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Decreased

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64
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An eye with perfect accommodation is called…

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Emmetropic

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65
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In the elderly, when the image projects onto the sclera rather than the fovea

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Hypermetropia

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66
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Blurred vision at close sight can be corrected with…

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A convex lens

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67
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Give the steps lens adjustment steps for close vision

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  1. Ciliary muscle contraction
  2. Ciliary body moves closer to the lens
  3. Reduced tension, lens becomes rounder
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68
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Light sensation is triggered in…

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Rods + cones

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69
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In detail give the cellular mechanisms in the light

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  1. 11-cis-retinal absorbs light
  2. 11-cis-retinal → 11-trans-retinal
  3. 11-trans-retinal → Metaretinal
  4. G-protein activated
  5. Cation channels closed
  6. Hyperpolarisation of the cell
  7. Glutamate transmitter release ceases
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70
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Describe the cellular mechanism of the eye in the dark

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  • Cones and rods = Dark current
  • Continuous glutamate transmission
71
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In detail give the cellular mechanisms in the dark

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  1. Inactive membrane discs
  2. cGMP keeps the Na+ channels open
  3. Na+ flows into the cell continuously
  4. Dark current for rods + cones emerges
  5. Generation of sustained glutamatergic transmission
  6. Glutamate inhibits bipolar cells, depolarising some cells, hyperpolarising others
72
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Receptive field

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AP frequency of ganglion cells depends on illumination state of the retinal section where the ganglion cell receives information

73
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Types of ganglion cells in receptive fields

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On-type and Off-type

74
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The exact mapping of an object is made possible by…

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The centre-periphery structure

  • Cones affect On/Off bipolar cells
  • Ganglion cells react in On/Off mode
75
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On-off experiment 1

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  • Increase of AP frequency in ON cells
  • Cessation AP firing in OFF cells
76
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On-Off experiment 2

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  • Light inhibits resting low-rate AP signalling of the On-type cell
  • Increases that of the Off-type cell
77
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On-Off experiment 3

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  • Light beam overlays the total surface of both ganglion cell types
78
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In on-off experiments, activation of both centre and periphery always entails…

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Reciprocal inhibition

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On-off experiment 4

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  • Peripheries of both ganglion types are fully illuminated
80
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On-Off experiment 5

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  • Middle & periphery of both ganglion cell types illuminated equally
  • Reciprocal inhibition causes → low AP frequency
  • Edges of dark/light surfaces represent enhanced stimulus
81
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What is needed to code for a colour

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Several cones

One cone alone cannot code a colour, only light intensity

82
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Give the neuronal pairs for receptor cells

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  • Red-Green
  • Yellow-Blue
  • Black-White
  • Yellow (alone)
83
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Scotopic vision

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Under certain light density, only the rods function

84
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Photopic vision

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Light density is higher, cones are activated

85
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Title the figure

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Luminosity curve

86
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Visual field

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  • Fixed gaze
  • The animal sees only part of the surrounding space
87
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The size of the visual field differs for…

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Each colour

88
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Visual acuity

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  • Sharpness of vision
  • The smallest angle under which two neighbouring object points will still be sensed as two points
89
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If there is at least one cone not illuminated between two well illuminated ones…

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It may give the sensation of two distinguishable points

90
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At large distance: Stimulation of two neighbouring cones results in…

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The sensation of one light spot only

91
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Prey animals have a …visual field

92
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Give the order of visual field size by colour, starting with the largest

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White > blue > green > red

93
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How is spatial vision provided?

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  • Points are located on the same spherical surface as the fixation point
  • Points located in front/behind the spherical surface don’t do so
    • Small distortion
    • Sensed as distance
94
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Saccadic movement

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  • Small changes in eye position
  • Used for ‘scanning’ a viewed object
95
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A single oculomotor neuron innervates…

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2-3 eye muscle fibres

96
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Conjugated eye movement

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The axes of two eyes move together

97
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Vergeance movement

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Divergence/Convergence

98
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Cycle-rotational movement

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  • If the head tilts during fixation
  • Compensatory movements
99
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Title the figure

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Object movement relative to 0° position

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105
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During object tracking, after correction of the head position…

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The eye quickly adapts tot he new position

106
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The shape of a dilated pupil is always

107
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Describe the innervation of the pupil reflexes

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  • Muscle for constriction : Parasympathetic control
  • Muscle for dilation : Sympathetic control
108
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Myosis

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Pupil constriction

109
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Mydriasis

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Dilation of the pupil

110
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Describe the consensual reaction of pupil dilation

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  • As light causes one pupil to constrict
  • The other eye will constrict without light needed
111
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What dilates the pupil

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Pain/ fight or flight

112
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Which Brodmann area is the primary visual area?

113
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The temporal and nasal parts of the visual field project…

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To the opposite sides of the retina

  • The dorsal and ventral parts are reversed in the same way
114
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Nasal & temporal halves of retina

115
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Optic chiasm

  • Fibres of the nasal part of the retina decussate
116
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The optic tract is formed by…

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  • A smaller medial bundle
  • A larger lateral bundle
117
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The medial bundle of the optic tract

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Reaches superior colliculus

Important in visual reflexes

118
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Pretectum

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Midbrain structure

Involved in:

  • Pupillary light reflex
  • Optokinetic reflex
  • Temporary changes to circadian rhythm
119
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Superior colliculus function

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Integrates saccadic eye movement

Localisation of an object

120
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LGN

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Lateral geniculate nucleus

  • Located in the thalamus
  • Functions as a filter
  • Doesn’t allow certain parts of retinal stimuli pass to higher cortical areas
121
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Optic radiation

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In the medial part of the occipital lobe

  • Information is transmitted to the visual cortex by radiation
122
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Primary visual cortex

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  • Striated cortex
  • Neuronal columns
  • Cylinders for colour vision
123
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The function of orientation columns

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Identify special patterns

  • By use of the contrast effect
124
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Mammals have better hearing…than humans

125
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Sound is characterised by…

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Wavelength + amplitude

126
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Sound velocity is constant…

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In a given medium at a given temperature

127
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Sound output is in which units?

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Decibels/bels

128
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Two sounds with different frequencies arent sensed with…

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Equal intensity

129
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Phon scale

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Used to measure psychophysical characteristics of sound output ratio

130
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Sounds with 1000Hz frequency have equal…

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Values on the phon and bel scale

131
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The oval window pushes into the…

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Scala vestibuli

132
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Describe amplification from the external to the internal ear

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22-fold amplification

133
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Which muscles contract to protect the ear from damaging sound?

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  • M. tensor tympanii
  • Innervated by the trigeminal nerve*
  • M. stapedius

Innervated by the facial nerve

134
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Scala vestibuli

  • Containing perilymph
135
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Scala tympani

  • Containing perilymph
136
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Scala media

  • Containing endolymph
137
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Helicotrema

138
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Organ of Corti

139
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Tectorial membrane

140
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A

Reissner’s membrane

141
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A

Basilar membrane

142
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The receptor cells of the organ of corti

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Hair cells

143
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What leads to the excitation of hair cells?

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  1. Displacement of the basilar membrane
  2. Hair cells touch the tectorial membrane
  3. Excitation of the hair cells
  4. Axons travel down the acoustic nerve
144
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Lower frequency sounds travel to the…part of the cochlea

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Helicotrema (apex)

145
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0

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Displacement of mechanosensitive cation channels

146
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1

A

Depolarising potassium current

Depolarisation

147
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2

A

Voltage dependent calcium channel opens:

Calcium influx

148
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3

A

Calcium sensitive basolateral potasium channel opens

K+ efflux

149
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4

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Hyperpolarisation/Repolarisation

150
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5

A

Calcium sequestration

151
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6

A

Oscillation membrane potential amplification

152
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7

A

Glutamate transmission

153
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The sensitivity of hearing can be tuned by…

154
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Organ of Corti

155
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Cochlear ganglion

156
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Dorsal olivary nucleus

157
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Medial lemniscus

158
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Ventral colliculus

159
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Thalamus CGM

160
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A

Primary auditory cortex

161
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As the cochlear ganglion is innervated, the neural signal is transferred to which two cell types?

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  • Stellate cells
  • Bushy cells

Generates a time mark, allowing spatial orientation by sound

162
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Lesion of the central units of the auditory tract…

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Never produces unilateral hearing disorders

163
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Vestibular apparatus

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Provides spatial position and motion of the head

  • Generates both static and kinetic information
164
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The vestibular organ is filled with…

165
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Name the enlargements of the vestibular semicircular ducts

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  • Ampulla
  • Utricle
  • Saccule
166
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The canals of the vestibular apparatus are arranged so that…

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Each canal on the left side has an almost parallel counterpart on the right

167
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In the vestibular organ, the movement of fluid pushes…

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On the cupula

  • Containing hair cells, transducing mechanical movements to electrical signals
168
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Movement of vestibular hair cells in the opposite direction to the depolarising direction causes…

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Hyperpolarisation

169
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Vestibular apparatus: Depolarisation causes neurotransmitter release on the other pole of the sensory epithelium, this stimulates…

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The primary afferent nerve-ending

170
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Afferent fibres from the vestibular organ travel to the…

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Cerebellum

171
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Otolith crystals function

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Vestibular apparatus: Push/pull the cilia of the hair cells

Therefore the receptor only responds to static effects and liner acceleration

172
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When stereocilia bend toward the kinocilium…

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  1. Mechanosensitive K+ channels open → Depolarisation
  2. IC Ca2+ signal triggers emptying of neurotransmitter
  3. AP generation
173
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Title the figure

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Turning of the head (left)

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