BIOD27H3 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 notes

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Chapter 10- sensory physiology sensory stimuli whose processing reaches the conscious level of perception these stimuli are those associated with the special senses of vision, hearing, taste, smell, and equilibrium somatic senses; touch, temperature, pain, itch, and proprioception. Proprioception; awareness of body movement and position in space is mediated by muscle and joint sensory receptors called proprioceptors and maybe unconscious or conscious. General properties of sensory systems sensory pathways begin with a stimulus that is converted by a receptor into an electrical potential if the stimulus is above threshold, action potentials pass along a sensory neuron to the. We become aware of some stimuli but are never conscious of others. Sensory receptors vary from free nerve endings to encapsulated nerve endings to specialized receptor cells. 4 types of sensory receptors based on stimulus to which they are most sensitive to; chemoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, thermoreceptors, and photoreceptors.

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