NATS 1860 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sodium Channel, Color Blindness, Receptive Field

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We have sensory inputs (vision, hearing, and touch) that feed the inputs into higher brain areas that make decisions, store them into memory and have them function for other uses. These are two-dimensional surfaces that are developed through electric brain stimulation in order to figure out which locations do which actions. These maps are all distorted in the sense that they represent how much neural activity is coming or going from rather than the physical area of the body. Axons originate at axon hillocks which are small protrusions of the soma: soma is the body of the nerve cell where axons come from and dendrites enter (or leave) In order to measure cell activity, you insert an electrode into the soma: dendrites and axons have different functions from the nerve cells, the dendrites and axons are how the nerve cell dispatches and receives its information.

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