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Other senses

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4 skin senses (touch) pressure/ warmth/ cold/ pain
Pain nociceptors—sensory receptors in skin, muscles, and organs--detect hurtful temperatures, pressure, or chemicals.
Path of pain Nocioceptors→spinal cord→ brain→ “OUCH!”
Phantom Limb Pain Brain creates painful sensations after an amputation
Phantom Limb Pain cortex misinterpretation of spontaneous neural activity in the sensory cortex
Empathy We perceive more pain when others experience more pain
Expectation We get cues from our culture on how to respond to pain
Pain is impacted by how much attention we give to it
Taste is also called gustation
Supertasters Contain more pores
Sweet energy source
Salty sodium source
Sour Potentially toxic acid
Bitter potential poison
Umami protein
5 tastes Sweet/ salty/ sour/ bitter/ umami
Process of tasting Food chemicals → Transduction inside taste bud pore → thalamus → sensory cortex
Smell is also called olfaction
olfactory receptors in olfactory bulb transmit a message to the rest of the brain
How does smell reach our brain? Air/ Olfactory Receptor/ Brain’s olfactory bulb/ Temporal lobe (primary smell cortex)/ Limbic system (memories)
Kinesthetic sense Position of body in space (Cerebellum)
Vestibular sense Balance (Semicircular canals in ears (crystals cause vertigo)
synesthesia the brain circuits for two or more senses become joined/ Stimulation of one sense triggers an experience of another
Created by: Sophia154
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