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Concious level of perception.
Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and equilibrium |
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Concious level of perception.
Touch-pressure, temperature, pain, and proprioception |
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Concious and unconcious level of perception.
Awareness of body position in space and of the relative location of body parts to each other
Mediated by muscle and joint sensory receptors called proprioreceptors. |
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Conversion of a signal from one modality to another.
Sometimes accomplished by the opening of voltage gated ion channels.
Other times by secondary messenger systems. |
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| The form of energy to which a particular receptor is most responsive |
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| The sensory neuron that takes information from the sensory receptor into the spinal cord |
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Spinal neurons that carry ascending information to the brain |
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| The 1:1 association of a sensory receptor with a sensation |
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Process in which sensory neurons close to a stimulus are inhibited to intensify the perception of the stimulus |
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| The number of sensory receptors activated encodes the intensity of a stimulus |
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| Slowly adapting receptors |
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| Rapidly adapting receptors that are attuned to changing conditions |
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protein associated with (type II) sweet, bitter, and umami tastes.
It releases Ca2+ from stores and allows CA2+ to flow in.
The calcium signal then initiate ATP release from type II cells. |
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