6.4 General Somatic Afferent

Question 0

Non special tract that conducts sensation

Answer 0

GSA

Question 1

Ability to identify objects with absence of vision

Answer 1

Stereognosis

Question 2

Exteroceptor: outside of the body; ____________: inside the body

Answer 2

Interoceptors

Question 3

Slow adapting, non encapsulated

Answer 3

Merkel’s disc

Question 4

Encapsulated, detects light touch, 2 pt discrimination

Answer 4

Meissner’s corpuscles

Question 5

Responds to muscle stretch, loc. in tendons

Answer 5

Golgi tendon organ

Question 6

For fine tuning movts and maintains muscle tone

Answer 6

Neuromuscular spindles

Question 7

Ventral thalamus

Answer 7

Subthalamus

Question 9

Part of the VP complex that relays sensation from the face

Answer 9

Ventral posteromedial VPM

Question 10

___ is the process in which a stimulus for which a receptor is specialized is transformed by the receptor membrane into a receptor potential

Answer 10

Transduction

Question 11

This theory states that different receptors detect each different quality of sensation

Answer 11

Doctrine of specific nerve energies

Question 12

This theory states that separate neural channels carry information from the specific receptors to the place in the brain by which is the site of sensation

Answer 12

Labeled line principle

Question 13

The ___ divides the thalamus into three unequal parts

Answer 13

Internal medullary lamina