Random Jeopardy Questions
Auditory System
Vision
Questions from Exam 3
Unit 4 Content
100

The main output center of the fear circuit in the brain

What is the CeA (Central Nucleus of the Amygdala)?

100
The A1 cortex is organized this way

What is tonotopically?

100
Two eyes seeing the same thing from different angles, allowing for depth perception

What is binocular disparity?

100

The kind of frequency that will induce LTD

What is low frequency stimulation (1 Hz) of presynaptic inputs?

100

The organized "mini human" in the brain translating to regions of somatosensory input

What is the somatosensory Homunculus?

200
The number of bones in a shark's body

What is 0?

200

This anatomical feature has an apical and a basal end

What is the cochlea?

200

Layer IV of the visual cortex is organized in these

What are ocular dominance columns?

200

Forms synapses with 10-12 spiral ganglion cells

What are outer hair cells?

200

These cells respond to the stretch of skin and deformation of joints

What are ruffini endings?

300

A group of ferrets

What is a business?

300

These channels begin the process of sound transduction

What are K+ MET channels?

300

The process of phototransduction in the photoreceptors

What is...Light activates opsins in photoreceptors. A GPCR (transducin) closes PDE, causing cGMP levels to decrease and close CNG channels-- hyperpolarization?
300

Cells in the V1 cortex are arranged this way

What are orientation columns?

300

DRG cells

What are dorsal root ganglion cells?

400

The end of a shoelace

What is an A-G-L-E-T? 
400

LSO neurons activate through this property

What is interaural intensity difference?

400

The shape of receptive fields in the LGN and the V1

What is circular? What is rectangular?

400

Cutting the right optic nerve would cause this

What is blindness from the right eye?
400

High frequency vibrations are encoded by these cells

What are pacinian corpuscles?

500

The stage name of Stefani Germanotta

What is Lady Gaga?
500

MSO neurons fire due to this

What is temporal summation through Interaural time difference?

500
The process of OFF bipolar cells

What is... ionotropic glutamate receptors (AMPA-r) that turn off when glutamate disappears in light)?

500

The order of sound transduction from the ear to the cortex

What is cochlea, cochlear nucleus, superior olivary nucleus, inferior colliculus, medial geniculate nucleus, A1?

500

These cells respond to the itch sensation

What are C-type Dorsal root ganglion cells?