General Sensory Physiology — Flashcards

What stimuli do Pacinian corpuscles respond to?

Doctrine of _____ states that when the nerve pathways from a particular sense organ are stimulated, the sensation evoked is that for which the receptor is specialized

Law of _____ states that no matter where a particular sensory pathway is stimulated along its course to the cortex, the conscious sensation produced is referred to the location of the receptor

What stimuli do Merkel's discs respond to?_____

Rods and cones release _____ at their synapses.

Position sense involves muscle spindles, golgi tendon organs, and _____ receptors and joint capsule receptors

_____cellular pathway gives signals for color vision, texture, shape, and fine details

The _____ is responsible for the detection of the direction of the sound.

Accommodation (near response) occurs via contraction of the _____ muscle, which relaxes the suspensory ligaments and allows the lens to become more round

What senses are impaired with zinc deficiency? _____ and smell (anosmia)