Genetics
This is the visible trait caused by an individual's allele combination.
What is a phenotype?
As you focus on reading a book, this part of your eye, packed with cones, ensures you can see the text in great detail.
What is the fovea?
After damage to the parietal lobe, a monkey struggles to locate an object in space, despite being able to recognize it. This is due to damage in which visual pathway?
What is the "where" (dorsal) pathway?
This receptor responds best to light touch and is crucial for perceiving fine details and textures and are close to the surface of your skin.
What are Merkel receptors?
What are the five basic taste qualities?
What are sweet, salty, sour, bitter, unami?
This term describes an individual with the same gene on both copies of a chromosome.
What is homozygous?
What results in the eye where all the axons leave the eye and there are no photoreceptors.
What is the "blind spot"?
Damage to this pathway, which leads from the visual cortex (V1) to the temporal lobe, results in difficulty recognizing objects. What is it?
What is the “what” (ventral) pathway?
These receptors fire when a stimulus is first applied and again when it is removed, responding to motion across the skin and are close to the surface of the skin.
What are Meissner corpuscle?
What is someone called when they can taste PTC and report foods such as dark chocolate, coffee, and broccoli as extremely bitter, more likely to experience pain when eating spicy foods, and more likely to dislike sugary foods.
What is a supertaster?
These factors are external substances or conditions that can negatively impact prenatal development.
What are teratogens?
After staring at a green and yellow flag, you look away and see red and blue colors instead. This phenomenon is explained by which color vision theory?
What is opponent-process theory?
If an animal is raised in an environment with only vertical lines, neurons that respond to vertical stimuli will be more prevalent, while they may fail to perceive horizontal lines. This phenomenon is an example of what?
What is selective rearing?
What property of sound allows you to distinguish between a piano and a violin?
What is timbre?
This region of the brain is where signals from the olfactory bulb are processed for odor identification.
What is the primary olfactory cortex
When a neuron loses input from an axon it forms new branches to take over synapses left vacant by damaged neurons.
What is axon sprouting?
In a dim room, you can still make out shapes thanks to these cells located in the periphery of your retina that are more sensitive to low light. What are they?
What are rods?
You flash a vertical bar of light across the retina, and neurons in the primary visual cortex fire rapidly. These neurons likely belong to which type of cortical cells?
What are simple cortical cells?
If a person experiences dizziness after spinning in circles, which part of the ear is responsible for detecting head rotation?
What are the semicircular canals?
What is the name of the region in the nasal cavity that contains receptors for olfaction and is located right below the olfactory bulb?
What is the olfactory mucosa?
This refers to the brain's ability to adapt and reorganize itself in response to learning new skills, such as playing a musical instrument or navigating complex environments.
What is brain plasticity?
These photoreceptors are essential for high-acuity vision and are responsible for perceiving color. They function best in bright light and come in three types, each sensitive to different wavelengths. What are they?
What are cones?
A person looks at a rapidly moving object, and certain neurons in their visual cortex fire based on the speed and direction of the movement. Which type of cortical cells are involved?
What are complex cortical cells?
What structure in the ear transmits vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear by pushing on the membrane covering the oval window and helps the transmission of waves from air to liquid.
What is the middle ear (Malleus, incus, and stapes)
These structures in the olfactory bulb receive signals from ORNs (olfactory receptor neurons) of a specific type and help organize odor information.
What are glomeruli?