BIOL 1051H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate, Cerebellum, Orbitofrontal Cortex

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Sensory receptor- a structure specialized to detect a stimulus. Transduction- the fundamental purpose of any sensory receptor is conversion of a stimulus (eg light, heat, touch, sound, smell, taste) into nerve signals. Receptor potential- a small local electrical change on a receptor cell brought about by a stimulus. This result in release of neurotransmitter or a volley of action potentials that generated nerve signals to the cns. Sensory receptors transmit four kinds of information: modality, location, intensity, duration. 1. modality- type of stimulus or sensation it produces. Labeled line (anatomical) coding is based on two ideas: Each sense (e. g. vision, touch, taste) has neurons with specialized receptors that are especially sensitive to (tuned to) a narrow range of stimuli: their adequate stimulus. The brain has specialized areas for different functions; this idea is called localization of function. Each sense has its specialized area which, when activated, produces the experience associated with the sense.

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