Exam 6: Other Sensory Systems

 In the auditory system, hair cells are specialized receptors that respond to ____.

 The ____ of a sound is the number of compressions per second.

 Meissner's corpuscles are ____.

 Gary has conductive deafness as a result of ____ damage.

 Pacinian corpuscles respond best to ____.

 Taste and smell axons converge onto many of the same cells in an area called the ____.

 Damage to V1 produces ____ and damage to A1 produces ____.

 Olfactory receptors carry their message to the ____.

 Studies with placebos and studies using hypnotism suggest that much of the reduction in pain is the result of decreased activation in the ____.

 How many kinds of olfactory receptors do we have?

 How do hurt feelings resemble physical pain?

 The eardrum vibrates at ____.

 Humans have a sense of taste so that ______.

 Which ability would be most impaired with damage to the vestibular senses?

 Professor Schimke is giving a lecture on the somatosensory system. He tells the class that sensory information travels from the thalamus to the _____.

 What is the intensity of a sound wave called?

 Elfreda burned her tongue and lost some of her taste receptors. She will now have permanent taste problems.

 How do sound waves ultimately result in the production of receptor potentials?

 Since taste receptors are modified _____, they are replaced approximately every _____.

 Professor Gramling is giving a lecture about the auditory system. He tells the class that the basilar membrane is part of the _____ in the _____.