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Transducer

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Converts one energy to another form of energy

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Sensory transduction

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Converts a sensation into an action potential
- occurs in sensory receptors

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What are the structural categories of sensory receptors?

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  1. Free nerve endings
  2. Encapsulated nerve endings
  3. Specialized receptor cells
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Free nerve ending sensory receptors

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  • normal dendrites
    Sense: Pain, temperature, light touch,
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Encapsulated nerve endings

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  • enclosed dendrites
    Ex) pacinian corpuscle - pressure
    Meissner’s corpuscle - light touch
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Specialized receptor cells are

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Rods and cones - light
Hair cells - balance & equilibrium

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What are the two functional categories of sensory receptors?

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  1. Type of energy transduced
  2. Type of information sent to brain
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Thermoreceptors

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Temperature

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Mechanoreceptors

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Deformation

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Photoreceptors

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Light

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Chemoreceptors

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Chemical

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Nociceptors

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Tissue damage ( pain receptors)

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Proprioceptors

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Body position, fine motor control

Ex) muscle spindle - stretch reflex
Golgi tendon organ - tension in tendon

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Cutaneous receptors

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Skin sensations

  • touch/ pressure
  • hot/cold
  • pain
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Special senses

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Input from outside world (found in head region)
- sight, hearing, sound, taste, smell

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Properties of sensory receptors

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  1. Specificity
    - binding due to specific characteristics
  2. Sensitivity
    - ability to detect low levels of energy
  3. Range fractionation
    - large range, of sensory input
  4. Acuity
    - discrimination- detecting two inputs
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Receptive field

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Region in the sensory periphery that will stimulate a sensory neuron

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Difference b/w a small receptive field and a large receptive field

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Small = more sensory neurons ➡️ more area in primary somatosensory field

Large = less amount of sensory receptors (neurons)

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How is sensory information coded?

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  1. Stimulus type
    - receptors are stimulus specific
  2. Intensity
    - Ap frequency
  3. Location
  4. Duration
    - AP still arriving = stimulus present
    - AP not arriving = stimulus isn’t present
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Two ways of adaptation of sensory receptors

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  1. Phasic receptors
  2. Tonic receptors
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Phasic receptors

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Fast adapting
- adapt to constant stimulus or fire when stimulus is applied/ removed ( after image)

Ex) odor, touch, temperature

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Tonic receptors

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Slow adapting / non adapting

Ex) pain

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What are the two types of general senses?

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Somatic sensory & visceral sensory

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Somatic sensory input is from

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Skin, skeletal muscle, joints

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Visceral sensory input
Is from internal organs
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What are the three regions of the ear?
Inner ear, middle ear, outer ear
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Outer ear
Auricle to the tympanic membrane
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Middle ear
Air filled space, 3 ossicles, opening of Eustachian tube
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Inner ear contains
Houses bony labyrinth/ membranous labyrinth (3 semicircular canals, vestibule, cochlea)
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Membranous labyrinth
Fluid filled tubes/sacs inside bony labyrinth
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Perilymph
Surrounds membranous labyrinth
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Endolymph
Within the membranous labyrinth
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The bony labyrinth within the inner ear contains what three structures? What about the membranous labyrinth?
Bony labyrinth = 3 semicircular canals, vestibule, cochlea Membranous labyrinth = 3 semicircular ducts, utricle & saccule, cochlear duct
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What is the sensory receptor found in the membranous labyrinth?
Hair cells
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Hair cells
Sensory receptor of hearing & equilibrium
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Vestibular apparatus
Organ of equilibrium
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What structures are apart of the vestibular apparatus?
1. Semicircular Canals- sense angular acceleration (spin) 2. Saccule & utricle - sense verticals/horizontal acceleration (linear)
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Vestibular apparatus function(s)
- spatial orientation: tells brain where head is in space - perception of self motion - prevents falls & dizziness
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What happens when hair cells are bent to the left? The right?
Bend left = increase AP to temporal lobe Bend right = decrease AP to temporal lobe
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What houses the hair cells?
Crista ampullaris
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What cause the semicircular canals to sense movement
Endolymph inside membranous labyrinth moves the cupula (gel) causing hair cells in crista ampullaris to move
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What is inside the ampulla (space)
Crista ampullaris - cupola (gel) Hair cells
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Utricle
Hair cells in macula sense horizontal acceleration
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Saccule
Hair cells in macula sense verticals acceleration ( up & down)
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Otolith
Calcium carbonate (crystals)
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Otolith membrane
Gel
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Macula
Hair cells
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External ear function for hearing
Channel sound waves to tympanic membrane
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Middle ear function for hearing
amplify sound waves ( malleus, incus, stapes vibrating against each other) producing fluid waves in inner ear
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Inner ear function for hearing
Cochlea transduces fluid waves into action potentials - fluid waves in perilymph bend stereocilia of hair cells ➡️ Ap down vestibulocochlear nerve
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Transmission of sound waves through the ear
1. Sound waves vibrate tympanic membrane 2. Vibrates ear ossicles 3. Pushes oval window in/out 4. Creating fluid waves in perilymph of scala vestibuli 5. Vibrating vestibular membrane 6. Vibrating basilar membrane on which hair cells are 7. Bends stereocilia of hair cells that are embedded in tectorial membrane ➡️ Ap to vestibulocochlear nerve
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Every time hair cells bend, it creates an action potential. True or false
True
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Sound waves
Disturbance of air molecules
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What cause a sound wave? What are its properties?
Compression - air coming closer together Rare fractions - expanding air out
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Frequency (wavelengths
Pitch
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Amplitude
Volume
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How is pitch coded?
The basilar membrane respond to frequencies of sound Base = high frequency Apex = low frequency
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How is volume coded in the ear?
- coded by frequency of action potentials Soft = decreased frequency of Ap Loud= increase frequency of AP
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Spinal organ
Functional unit of hearing
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Sound wave transduction by hair cells
- fluid move,ent in cochlear duct - hair cells bend (in tectorial membrane) - opens mechanically gated k+ channels - k+ diffuses into hair cell depolarizing cell membrane - opening voltage gated ca2+ channels - ca2+ diffuse into cell ➡️exocytosis of NT ➡️diffuse NT - binds to ligand gated na+ channel (receptor in sensory neuron) - if reaches threshold potential ➡️ action potential in sensory neuron to cochlear nerve

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