sensory & motor systems. some vocabulary: sensation action potentials that reach the brain via...
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Some vocabulary:
Sensation
Action potentials that reach the brain via sensory neurons
Perception
The brain’s awareness of sensations
Sensory & Motor Systems
Sensory transduction
Change in membrane potential of a receptor cell (receptor potential)
Integration
Processing of information via the summation of graded potentials
Sensory & Motor Systems
Mechanoreceptors
Pressure, touch, stretch, motion, sound
Muscle spindle
Sretch
Hair cells
Motion
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Pain receptors (nociceptors)
Thermoreceptors
Chemoreceptors
Gustatory receptors (taste)
Olfactory receptors (smell)
Electormagnetic receptors
Photoreceptors
Sensory & Motor Systems