Special Senses Flashcards
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sound waves
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Amplitude
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Frequency
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Anatomy of the Middle Ear and the
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Sound Transmission in the Ear
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The Organ of Corti
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Hair Cells
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Auditory Pathways
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Localization of a sound Source
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Conductive Hearing Loss
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Central Hearing _Loss
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Sensorineural Hearing Loss
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Hearing aids
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Cochlear Implants
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Vision as a Special Sense
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Activity of the ciliary muscle and the resulting tension on the zonular fibers
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The aqueous humour
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The macula
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The retina
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Optics of Vision: Refraction
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Accommodation
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To focus on near objects
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To focus on far objects
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If the lens is unable to be the correct shape…
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Myopia
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Hyperopia
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Presbyopia
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Astigmatism
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Glaucoma
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Cataracts
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Photoreceptors in the Retina
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Ganglion cell axons
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Horizontal cells
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Amacrine cells
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Photoreceptors: Rods and Cones
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Phototransduction in Cones
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On Pathway (Dark)
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Off Pathway (Dark)
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on pathway: light
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In the light, (Off Pathway)
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Photoreceptors and bipolar cells only undergo graded responses...
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Ganglion cells have ion channels
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The coexistence of on and off pathways in each region of the retina greatly improves image resolution
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Neural Pathways for Vision
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Visual Fields and Binocular Vision
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Sensory Receptors
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Receptor Potential and Sensory Transduction
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Classes of Receptors
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Sensory Modality
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sensory modality
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Adequate stimulus
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Two-Point discrimination
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Two-Point discrimination
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the receptor endings of different afferent neurons overlap,
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Lateral Inhibition
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Properties of a Stimuli: Intensity
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population coding.
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Frequency coding
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Properties of a Stimuli: Duration
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Tonic receptors
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Phasic receptors
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Somatic Sensation
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Meissner's corpuscle
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Merkele's Corpuscle
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Free neuron ending (non-encapsulated)
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panician corpuscles
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Ruffini corpuscle
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Somatic Sensory Pathways
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What is a Sensory System?
