NEUROSC M101A Lecture 1: Lecture 1 Part I Overview
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I encourage you to come to lecture, don"t rely on the reader because it is a short version of lectures. Questions based not just on book, but on many sources indicated in my lectures. List of sources where he takes his information. Acknowledge the sources of his images and for our own reference. Essentials of sensory perception: the conscious sensory experience. Sensory systems provide the information for sensory perception. Cones - responsible for high acuity vision in the daylight. Translates through photo-transduction cascade initiated by rhodopsin -> retinal ganglion cells. Big amount of brain resources devoted to vision, and integrate other sensory systems. Hair cells can be activate by sound waves, but not by light. Chemicals can activate olfactory and taste receptors as well. Nociceptors - responsible for letting us know if there are potentially damaging stimuli. 45 degrees coffee, the normal thermoreceptors are out of range. Photoreceptors - rods and cones, but also intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
