This forebrain structure of the limbic system is involved in learning and memory.
What is the hippocampus?
100
This technique of used in human research measures electrical activity of the brain on the scalp.
What is an EEG?
100
These are the receptor cells of the ear.
What are hair cells?
100
Name 2 differences between rods and cones.
Rods: 120 million, found in periphery, light sensitive, low activation threshold, low acuity
Cones: 6 million, color sensitive, found in fovea, high activation threshold, high acuity
100
These structures on the cilia of hair cells open ion channels and allow the flow of ions into the hair cells.
What is tip or fiber link?
200
In anatomy, the opposite of medial is....?
What is lateral?
200
This plane of section shows brain structures as they would be seen from the side.
What is sagittal?
200
The outer ear includes...
The pinna and ear canal.
200
In what order does visual information pass through the retina?
receptor cells, bipolar cells, ganglion cells
200
Name 2 differences between inner and outer hair cells.
Inner hair cells not attached to tectorial membrane, 1 row, damage is detrimental, synapse with one neuron.
Outer hair cells attached to tectorial membrane, 3 rows, synapse with many neurons.
300
What is the primary area of the cerebral cortex for auditory sensations?
What is the temporal cortex?
300
This instrument is used in animal research to hold an animal's head steady during surgery so that electrodes or needles can be implanted into the brain.
What is a stereotaxic instrument?
300
The ossicles of the ear come into contact with the cochlea here...
What is the oval window?
300
Someone with damage to their ventral stream of visual information may have difficulty....
describing what an object is or who someone is
300
Low frequency (pitch) sounds vibrate hair cells near the ____of the cochlea.
What is the apex?
400
Name one of the structures of the hindbrain.
What is the medulla, pons, or cerebellum?
400
These 2 hormones are released by the posterior pituitary gland.
What is oxytocin and vasopressin (ADH)?
400
The optic nerve sends visual information to....
What is the lateral geniculate nucleus?
400
This visual pathway functions to set an animal's circadian rhythm.
What is the retina-hypothalamic pathway?
400
What happens to photoreceptor cells in the dark?
They are depolarized....and glutamate is released.
500
This structure located in the forebrain is known as the sensory relay station and sends information to the cortex.
What is the thalamus?
500
Name a temporary ablation technique used in animal research.
What is cryogenic cooling or chemical?
500
Apperceptive visual agnosia results from damage to this visual information pathway.
What is the ventral stream?
500
When light hits the retina, the photoreceptor cell...
Hyperpolarizes....the release of glutamate is reduced.