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Cutaneous Senses
Olfaction
Gustation
Thermoreception
Electroreception
100
receptors located close to the surface of the skin that respond only to the onset and offset of a stimulus
What are Meissner corpuscles
100
Animals having a keen sense of smell that is necessary for survival
What is macrosmatic
100
the most recently discovered of the five basic taste qualities
What is umami
100
organisms that do not generate their own source of internal heat
What are poikilotherms
100
the name for fish who generate electric impulses that can be 60 or more volts
What are strongly electric fish
200
nerve fibers that carry temperature and pain information from cutaneous receptors to the spinal cord
What is the spinothalamic pathway
200
Olfactory area that detects pheromones
What is the vomeronasal organ
200
papillae that are shaped like mushrooms and are fund on the sides and tip of the tongue
What are fungiform papillae
200
the range of sin temperatures that make up the neutral range
What is 32-42 C
200
the very very sensitive electroreceptive system found in the heads of many open water sharks
What is the ampulla of lorenzini
300
the type of pain caused by damage to tissues and joints or by tumor cells
What is inflammatory pain
300
The layer of the olfactory receptor system that has axons, blood vessels, connective tissue, and secretes mucous
What is the lamina propria
300
the way in which the taste sensory system generates action potentials
What is the release of neurotransmitter from receptor cells generates an AP from the neurons that receive them, receptors are distinct cells
300
The type of heat that is detected by rattlesnakes through their pit organs
What is infrared radiation
300
the type of electroreceptor that has a gelatinous plug
What is the ampullary type
400
the gelatinous structure in which the stereocillia of neuromasts are imbedded
What is the cupula
400
the structures in the olfactory bulb that receive inputs from the olfactory receptor neurons
What are the glomeruli
400
the idea that the perception of a taste is generated from the outputs of many different types of receptor cells
What is distributed coding
400
the type of adaptation that thermoreceptors exhibit
What is phasic adaptation
400
tuberous receptors respond to this type of frequency of electric current
What is high frequency
500
the name of the type of cells that make up the "gate" in the gate control model of pain perception
the name of the type of cells that make up the "gate" in the gate control model of pain perception
500
the area of the brain that first receives input from the olfactory bulb
What is primary olfactory cortex or piriform cortex
500
the place in the brain where inputs form smell and taste are first combined
What is the orbital frontal cortex
500
the hypothesized functional explanation for why pit originally organs evolved in snakes
What is prey detection
500
a terrestrial organism that uses electroreceptors to find prey
What is the echidna