5(?) Senses
This sensory system functions using specialized cells called photoreceptors to convert photons into a neural signal.
What is The Visual System/Vision?
Blanketing most of the retina, these photoreceptors respond best in low-light settings and excel at motion detection.
What are Rods?
The outermost portion of your ear, this structure is responsible for catching sound and funneling it into your ear canal.
What is The Pinnae?
A person with monochromacy likely experiences visual perception in what range of light?
What are Black and White/Grayscale?
This feature of sensory receptors describes how quickly a cell responds to a stimulus. (i.e. how low the cell’s threshold is)
What is Sensitivity?
This sensory system uses mechanoreceptors to produce sensation by recording disruptions in air pressure.
What is The Auditory System/Hearing?
The iris is responsible for contracting and expanding to control the light that passes through your eye. What is the hole in the middle of your iris called?
What is The Pupil?
The smallest bones in your body, the ‘hammer’, ‘stirrup’, and ‘anvil’ tap rapidly against the cochlea to create tiny bubbles.
What are Ossicles?
In contrast to colors of light, pigments rely on which kind of color mixing?
What is Subtractive color mixing?
This feature of sensory receptors describes how precisely/accurately a cell records environmental information.
What is Acuity?
These sensory systems work together using chemoreception to interpret chemical stimuli.
What are Olfaction and Gustation/Smell & Taste?
Resting just below your retina, this structure packages information from photoreceptors and sends it to the brain.
What is The Optic Nerve?
This delicate structure cups air as it reaches the end of the ear canal and vibrates according to the frequency and amplitude of the sound wave(s).
What is The Tympanic Membrane/Eardrum?
The least common of the two-cone variants of colorblindness causes an inability to distinguish shades of blue and yellow.
What is Tritanopia?
These receptors function differently than photoreceptors or mechanoreceptors, being temporarily altered by the stimulus.
What are Chemoreceptors?
This sensory system is often lumped together with the tactile sense but in fact works independently to create the sensation of pain.
What is Nociception?
This area of your retina contains the highest concentration of cones, producing sharp vision in the center of your visual field.
What is The Fovea and/or Macula?
Tiny hairs within your ear that shear against the tectorial membrane to convert the mechanical energy of sound waves into electrical signals for A1.
What are Stereocilia?
Trichromatic theory posits that every color in our visual system is composed of a combination of cone activation. Which three colors are our cones specialized to detect?
What is Red, Green, and Blue?
This feature of a wave refers to how many times a wave ‘repeats’ over a given distance/time period.
What is Frequency?
This sensory system works with structures anchored to your inner ear and helps to coordinate balance.
What is Vestibular Sense?
This structure forms the front of your eye and protects the delicate structures within. It is also the fastest-healing tissue in your body.
What is The Cornea?
Forming the base of your cochlea, this structure is displaced by bubbles in the fluid of your ear.
What is The Basilar Membrane?
List the 3 opponent pairs in our visual system.
What are Red:Green, Blue:Yellow, and Black:White?
When a stimulus is constant and consistent our sensory systems begin to quiet our conscious awareness of it. What is this efficiency called?
What is Adaptation?