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Spatial Orientation

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show set of 5 organs--- 3 semicircular canals & 2 otolith organs--- located in each inner ear that sense head motion and head orientation w/respect to gravity. (Vestibular labyrinth)  
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show sense comprised of 3 interacting sensory modalities: our senses of linear motion, angular motion, & tilt  
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show mechanical structures in the vestibular system that sense both linear acceleration & gravity  
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Semicircular canals   show
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show magnitude of displacement (increase or decrease) of a head movement s/a angular velocity, linear acceleration, & tilt.  
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show spatial orientation modality that senses motion resulting from rotation  
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Sense of linear motion   show
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show spatial orientation modality that senses head inclination in respect to gravity  
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Hair cells   show
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Mechanoreceptors   show
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show change in voltage of sensory receptor cells--- hair cells for the vestibular system--- in response to stimulation  
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show 1 of the 2 otolith organs. Saclike structure that contains the utricular macula  
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Saccule   show
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show specialized detectors of linear acceleration & gravity found in each otolith organ  
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Otoconia   show
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show illusory sense of self motion produced when you are not moving  
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Vestibular system; set of specialized sense organs located in the inner ear right next to the cochlea   show
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show dizziness, spatial disorientation, imbalance, blurred vision, &/or illusory self-motion when problems arise  
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show diff. receptors &/or diff. stimulation energy as vision and audition do  
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show gravity, angular acceleration, & linear acceleration  
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show they transduce both linear acceleration & relative orientation of gravity into a neural signal (reliance on the brain and not the otolith organs to tell the diff. b/w gravity and linear acceleration)  
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Direction   show
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show speed of our perceived motion can be large or small (see definition)  
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show close eyes and nod head as if saying no (left to right)  
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Relatively pure linear motion   show
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show  
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show x-axis: points forward; y-axis points out to the left ear; & z-axis always points outs the top of the head  
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show directional quality;  
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Pitch   show
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Yaw   show
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Vestibular labyrinth   show
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Each ear   show
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show changes in hair cell voltage---are proportional to the bending of the hair cell bundles & control the rate @ which hair cells release neurotransmitter to afferent neurons  
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Rate of Aps transmitted (in voltage change of hair cells)   show
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show are maximally sensitive to rotations in in diff. planes yielding part of the direction coding for head rotation  
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