Vision
The colored part of your eye. Changes size of the pupil to regulate the entry of light.
What is the Iris?
How sound travels.
What are waves?
The part of the body where smell receptors are located
What is the nasal cavity?
The 5 basic taste sensations
What are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and Umami?
The 4 main sensations detected by the skin.
What are heat, cold, pressure, and pain?
The two types of photoreceptors found within the eye.
What are rods and cones?
The 3 main divisions of the ear.
What are outer, middle, and inner?
This happens when you stop noticing a smell after being exposed to it for a while
What is sensory adaptation?
The official name for the sense of taste
Gustation
The sense of body position and movement
The nerve that sends information from the eye to the brain for processing.
What is the Optic Nerve?
The snail shaped structure in the inner ear
What is Cochlea?
The official term for the sense of smell.
What is Olfaction?
What are Taste Buds?
This is a part of the inner ear that directly affects balance and orientation.
What are Semicircular Canals?
The process of the conversion of light into neural signals
What is Transduction?
The lobe of the brain responsible for processing auditory signals.
What is the temporal lobe?
The brain structure that processes smell. Closely linked to memory and emotion.
What is the Olfactory Bulb?
This sense of taste is usually associated with poison
What is Bitter?
The part of the brain (located in the parietal lobe) that processes touch sensations.
What is the Somatosensory Cortex?
Theory of visual sensation that says the retina contains red, green, and blue receptors. Their combination allows us to percieve the full color spectrum.
Damage to hair cells in the cochlea results in this type of hearing loss.
What is Sensorineural Hearing Loss?
The sense of smell is the only sense of the 5 that bypasses this area of the brain.
What is the Thalamus?
The integration of taste, smell, texture, and temperature creates which experience?
The concept that if you bump your elbow and rub it, the pain is reduced.
What is the Gate Control Theory of Pain?