Sensory Integration — Flashcards

_____cellular pathway gives signals for movement, depth, flicker, and spatial organization

What stimuli do Merkel's discs respond to?_____

The pre-cortical input to the thalamus includes fibres from all sensory systems except?_____

About _____ per cent of inspired air reaches the olfactory area within the nose

What senses are impaired with zinc deficiency? _____ and smell (anosmia)

Accommodation (near response) occurs via contraction of the _____ muscle, which relaxes the suspensory ligaments and allows the lens to become more round

Which types of sensory receptor adapt quickly? _____ and Meissner corpuscles

Traveling wave theory of _____ was proposed by Von Bekesy.

Position sense involves muscle spindles, golgi tendon organs, and _____ receptors and joint capsule receptors

Metarhodopsin II activates _____ member of G proteins which leads to closure of Na+ channels and hyperpolarization