Somatic
Thermoreceptor
The type of receptor involved in smell and taste.
Chemoreceptors
Specific type of chemoreceptor in the upper part of your nasal passage
Olfactory receptor cells
This type of receptor detects sound waves.
Mechanoreceptor
Cochlea
A general structure that detects a stimulus and converts its energy into another form. It may convert energy to a graded potential, or may cause release of a neurotransmitter.
Receptor
Where are your taste buds located?
Around the edges, front, and back of the tongue.
There is a layer of this inside your nose (also digestive tract and airways)
Mucus layer
Loudness relates to ______ of sound waves
Amplitude
This structure includes hair cells (mechanoreceptors) and tectorial membrane
Organ of Corti
In skeletal muscles: muscle spindles are a specilized type of ___________ for monitoring muscle length, which relay information about limb position.
Mechanoreceptor
The 5 things you can taste with human taste buds.
• Sweet
• Salty
• Sour
• Bitter
• Umami
The part of the brain where sensory neurons go when you are smelling something.
Olfactory bulb in the forebrain, just above the nasal cavity.
Pitch / tone relates to _____ of sound waves
Frequency (number of wave cycles/sec)
The inner ear senses rotational movement via _____, which bends hair cells
Movement of fluid in semicircular canals
Sensor neuron stops sending impulses even though the original stimulus is still present. It allows the CNS to concentrate on important stimuli and ignore noncritical ones to maintain homeostasis.
Sensory adaptation
Large and small of these exist on your tongue and contain taste buds.
Papilla
How does sense of smell complement sense of taste?
When food is chewed, it releases chemicals that come in contact with olfactory receptors.
The outer visible portion of ear that directs sound waves to the auditory canal
Pinna
Movement of these crystals bends hair cells in the vestibule (utricle and saccule) to detect head position and linear acceleration.
Otoliths
When you feel pain in one part of your body, but the real source of that pain is coming from somewhere else.
Referred pain
Works along with taste cells and supporting cells to form a taste bud.
Taste hairs
Olfactory sensory neurons in the nose detect airborne odor molecules, which dissolve in ________ and bind to specialized receptors.
Mucus
The hammer, anvil, and stirrup bones in the middle ear that amplify sound.
Malleus (hammer), Incus (anvil), Stapes (stirrup
Behind the stapes (stirrup), connecting the middle and inner ear, there is this structure. Vibrations pass through it to the cochlear fluid as pressure waves.
Oval window