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Sensory receptors communicate 4 properties to the CNS

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Location, modality (type of stimulus), intensity, and duration

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Exteroreceptors vs Interoreceptors

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Exteroreceptors- respond to stimuli from outside world

Interoreceptors- respond to stimuli inside the body

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Various stimuli from inside body

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Sense pain from within the body and dehydration/ overhydration

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Olfactory and gustatory receptors both respond to which stimuli

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Chemical stimuli

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What cells are responsible for hearing? These are found in inner ear, convert pressure signals from sound waves into action potentials. they also respond to pressure to sense rotational acceleration

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Hair cells

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Semicircular canals contain a fluid called? This fluid moves in response to rotational acceleration

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Endolymph

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Hair cells in which structure send rotational information to the nervous system

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Crista ampullaris

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Type of mechanoreceptors that detect light touch

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Tactile corpuscles

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Type of mechanoreceptors that respond to sustained pressure

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Merkel nerve endings

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Type of mechanoreceptors that sense deep pressure beneath the surface of the skin

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Ruffini endings

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Type of mechanoreceptors that respond to high-frequency vibrations

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Pacinian corpuscle

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Receptors that detect pain

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Nociceptors- some respond to mechanical stimuli, some to thermal stimuli, and some to chemical stimuli (ex. Capsaicin - spicy food)

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These Interoreceptors detect pressure inside the body, like walls of blood vessels. These are subset of mechanoreceptors

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Baroreceptors

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Blood pressure is linked to 2 properties

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Blood volume and hydration

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These detect concentration of solutes in blood

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Osmoreceptors

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These receptors are found in and around muscles, tendons, joints. Give us a sense of relative position of the parts of our body in space. (Kinesthetic sense)

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Proprioceptors

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Proximal vs Distal stimulus

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Proximal: what the sensory receptor picks up on
Distal: the environmental source of the signals

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The threshold that a stimulus must cross in order to consciously perceive it

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Threshold of Conscious Perception

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The level of intensity that a stimulus must have in order to be picked up by sensory neurons. If a stimulus does not hit the threshold, it is not registered by our bodies

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Absolute threshold

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T or F. The level of stimulus can be pass the threshold of conscious perception but never pass the absolute threshold

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False. The opposite is true. The absolute threshold can be passed but not the threshold of conscious perception

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The smallest change in magnitude of a stimulus that we can perceive as being different. Also known as the difference threshold

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Just- Noticeable Difference (JND)

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Tests whether research subjects can tell the difference between 2 stimuli

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Psychophysical discrimination testing

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For any given sensory input the JND will be a constant proportion of the original input

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Weber’s Law (breaks down at extremes- too strong/ too faint)

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Bear actually present and bear is perceive

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Hit

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Bear is actually present but bear not perceived

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Miss

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Bear actually absent but bear perceived

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False Alarm

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Bear actually absent and bear not perceived

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Correct rejection

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T or F. Signal detection can vary across people but is not affected by psychological states.

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False. First part is correct but psychological states can affect signal detection

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Sensory adaptation occurs where?

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In the brain

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These receptors are slow to adapt to stimuli

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Tonic receptors

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These receptors send a burst of action potentials, then stop. (Fast adaptation)

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Phasic receptors

Ex. Hair follicles

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Bottom up processing vs top-down processing

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Bottom-up: individual pieces assembled to see the bigger pic

Top-down: brain decides what it is looking for, then assembled individual pieces to support that pic

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We perceive objects or shapes that a re close to each other as forming groups

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Principle of proximity

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Objects that are similar in some way will be perceived as belonging to a group

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Principle of similarity

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If multiple objects intersect or overlap, we tend to perceive them as relatively few uninterrupted objects

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Principle of Good Continuation

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We infer the presence of complete shapes even when they’re incomplete

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Principle of closure

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Symmetrical objects are more likely to be perceived as whole than asymmetrical objects

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Principle of symmetry

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Law of Pragnanz

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Objects are interpreted in the simplest and most meaningful ways
(For Gestalt Principles)

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Eye structure that turns certain wavelengths of light into action potentials

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Retina

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40
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Cones and rods are photoreceptors located at which structure of the eye?

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Retina

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41
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Which photoreceptor is responsible for perceiving color and fine detail

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Cones

42
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Short wavelength type of cones is responsible for sensing which color? What is the wavelength

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Blue- 420 nm

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Medium wavelengths type of cone is responsible for sensing which color? What is the wavelength?

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Green- 530 nm

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Long wavelength type of cone is responsible for sensing which color? What is the wavelength?

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Red- 560 nm

45
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Where are cones most commonly located?

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Fovea centralis and macula (central region around the fovea)

46
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Which photoreceptor is responsible for sensing visual input in low-light conditions (responsible for night vision)?

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Rods

47
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What is the pigment that the rods contain. This doubles as a photoreceptor protein and is extremely sensitive to light

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Rhodopsin

48
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T or F. There are more cones than rods.

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False. There are about 120 million rods and only 6 million cones.

49
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Which 2 structures of the eye focus the light?

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Cornea and lens

50
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What structure of the eye actually lets light into the eye and which one blocks the light that is not supposed to get into the eye?

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Pupil and cornea respectively

51
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Which structure of the eye contains the dilator pupillae and constrictor pupillae?

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Iris

52
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Which muscle adjusts the lens?

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Ciliary muscle through the suspensory ligaments of lens

53
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Which structure of the eye surround the retina, supply blood, and absorb excess blood?

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Choroid

54
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What is the outermost layer of the eye?

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Sclera- gives the eye white color

55
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The cones and rods are not directly in contact with optic nerve. Instead they synapse onto?

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Bipolar cells

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T or F. Bipolar cells have their cell body in the middle, with the dendrites in one end and axon on the other

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True

57
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T or F. Each bipolar cell is connected to only one cone or rod

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False. Each is connected to many. Information is integrated

58
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Bipolar cells synapse with ________, which are the components of optic nerve

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Ganglion cells

59
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Cells between cones/rods and bipolar cells. they inhibit photoreceptors, helping the eye to adjust to high versus low-light conditions and also synapse into bipolar cells too

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Horizontal cells

60
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Cells in between bipolar cells and ganglion cells.

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Amacrine cells

61
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Which 3 structures are mediary between rods and cones of the retina and the ganglion cells of the optic nerve

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Horizontal, bipolar, and amacrine cells

62
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The bundle of nerves carrying visual information

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Optic tract

63
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The optic tract runs through ________ _________ ________, which is contained in the thalamus

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Lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)

64
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The main relay station for inputs from the retinas

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Thalamus

65
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Specialized types of neurons in LGN

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Magnocellular neuron and Parvocellular neurons - opposite functions

66
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Ability to pick up details

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Temporal resolution

67
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Ability to see in detail

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Spatial resolution

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Magnocellular neurons function

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Specialize in detecting motion. Not good at picking up details

69
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Parvocellular neurons function

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Specialize at picking up details. Not good at detecting motion

70
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Objects that are close to us move further across our visual field than objects that are far from us

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Motion Parallax- cue to perceive depth

71
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Detection of individual stimuli

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Feature detection

72
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Integrate multiple inputs simultaneously

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Parallel Processing

73
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Systematically giving attention to one thing at a time

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Serial Memory Processing

74
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Sound waves are ____________ waves that, in air, manifest as regularly repeating changes in __________ as air molecule move back and forth

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Longitudinal ; pressure

75
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What cells are responsible for hearing?

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Hair cells

76
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Where are the hair cells located?

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In the inner ear within a structure called the organ of Corti

77
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T or F. The sound waves causes hair cells to sway, opening up sterocilia that allows the passing of positively charged ions which in turn cause the influx of Ca2+ Ions through voltage-gated Ca2+ channels

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True

78
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3 sections of organ of corti

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Basilar membrane in the bottom,
Endolymph containing hair cells in the middle,
Tectorial membrane- rigid structure

79
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3 bones in the middle ear (ossicles0

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Malleus, incus, and stapes

80
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Which membrane divides outer ear from middle ear?

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Tympanic membrane

81
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Connection to nasal cavity which is basically a valve that equalizes the pressure between the middle ear and the environment

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Eustachian tube

82
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These can amplify the the vibrations from the eardrum by as much as 10 times

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Ossicles

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T or F. The thickness of the basilar membrane isn’t constant and different thicknesses respond to different frequencies of vibrations

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True

84
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The thickest part of the basilar membrane is closest to the oval window and responds to (low/ high) frequency vibrations

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High

85
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Allows the brain to infer pitch of sound based on which hair cells send signals

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Place theory

86
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What structure divided middle ear and inner ear?

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Oval window

87
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The nerve signals generated by the hair cells in the organ of Corti are transmitted through the?

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Vestibulocochlear (auditory) nerve

88
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The auditory signals pass through (medial/ lateral) geniculate nucleus in the thalamus on their way to the auditory cortex in the temporal lobe

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Medial

89
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Hearing:

Left hemisphere vs Right hemisphere

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Left: speech
Right: background noise

90
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Which cells are responsible for our vestibular sense?

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Hair cells

91
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3 Endolymph-containing structure called ______________ __________ are responsible for sensing rotational acceleration

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Semicircular canals

92
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Each end of the semicircular canal ends in a bulge called an _______, which contains hair cells

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Ampulla

93
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This sense linear acceleration

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vestibule

94
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Utricle vs Saccule of the vestibule

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Utricle: detects motion in the horizontal place
Saccule: detects motion in the vertical plane

95
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Function of cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibule

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Cochlea: sound
Semicircular canals: rotational acceleration
Vestibule: linear acceleration

96
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CaC)3- containing structures in the utricle and saccule that helps stimulate hair cells

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Otoliths

97
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Minimum distance for distinguishing two point stimuli

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2 point threshold

98
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The smaller the 2 point threshold is the (less/ more) sensitive the area is

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More

99
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Our skin is cooler than our normal body temp.

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Skin: 80- 90s

Core body temp: 98.6

100
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Pain turned on/ off based on input

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Gate Theory of Pain

101
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Taste pathway

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Taste center of thalamus -> gustatory cortex (in insula)

102
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Smell pathway

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Olfactory bulb -> olfactory tract -> limbic system

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