Textbook Notes for Neuroscience at University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)

Chapter 11 the auditory and vestibular systems. Audition (sense of hearing) and vestibular system (sense of balance) have very different functions but

The retinofugal projection y the neural pathway that leaves the eye, beginning with the optic nerve is often referred to as the retinofugal projection.

In addition to the molecule itself, a neurotransmitter system includes all the molecular machinery responsible for transmitter synthesis, vesicular pac

 regulating biological rhythms, which are synchronized with the light and day cycle. Light y the visual system uses light to form images of the world

Intro: attention = state of selectively processing simultaneous sources of info; preferential processing of sensory info; selectively attend to some in

Action potential: conveys information over distances in the nervous system. Often called a spike, nerve impulse, or a discharge. Frequency and pattern

Somatic sensation enables our body to feel, to ache, to chill and to know that its parts are doing; it is responsible for touch and pain. A single sens

1: because the axonal membrane is excitable and has voltage gated na channels ap"s can propagate without decrement up the long sensory nerves. For info