sensory

Vestibular system

...e vestibular system , or balance system , is the sensory systemthat provides the dominant input about our m... cells (Fig. 4, bottom layer) and thus produces a sensory signal. Most of the utricular signals elicit eye movements, while the majority of the saccular signa...

Synapse

... synaptic strength involves the simple coincidence sensory stimuli and action potentials in the synaptically linked cells. Integration of synaptic inputs Generally, if an excitatory synapse is strong, an action potential in thepre-synaptic neuron will trigger another in the post-synaptic cell; whereas ...

Receptor

...munication , a receiver . In physiology , a sensory receptor is any structure which, on receiving environmental stimuli, produces an informative nerve impulse . In biochemistry , a receptor is a protein molecule that receives and responds to a specific neurotransmitter , hormone , or other ...

Proprioception

... is believed to be composed of information from sensory neurons located in the inner ear (motion and ...ressure, light/dark, temperature, sound, and other sensory experiences. Applications Proprioception is tested by police officers using the field sobriety...

Plant

...etween plants, which generally do not move or have sensory organs, and animals. In Linnaeus ' system, these became the Kingdoms Vegetabilia (later Plantae) and Animalia. Since then, it has become clear that the Plantae as originally defined included several unrelated groups, and the fungi and several gr...

Plant

...etween plants, which generally do not move or have sensory organs, and animals. In Linnaeus ' system, these became the Kingdoms Vegetabilia (later Plantae) and Animalia. Since then, it has become clear that the Plantae as originally defined included several unrelated groups, and the fungi and several gr...

Olfaction

...onse to odour. They process these signals from the sensory neurons in the antennal lobe followed by the mu... lateral horn of the brain. The antennae have the sensory neurons in the sensilla and they have their axons terminating in the antennal lobes. These antenna...

Neural plate

... separate from the neural tube and form the cord's sensory neurons ....

Nervous system

...s system can also be roughly seen as consisting of sensory pathways and motor pathways , the latter being divided into the somatic (voluntary) nervous system and the autonomic nervous system . The somatic nervous system is the voluntary part of the nervous system that coordinates a body's movements, s...

Muscle

...ibuted throughout the muscles and provide feedback sensory information to the central nervous system . Skeletal muscle is arranged in discrete groups, examples of which include the biceps brachii . It is connected by tendons to processes of the skeleton . In contrast, smooth muscle occurs at various ...

Animal

...and often have a specialized head with feeding and sensory organs. The body is triploblastic, i.e. all three germ layers are well-developed, and tissues form distinct organs. The digestive chamber has two openings, a mouth and an anus, and there is also an internal body cavity called a coelom or pseudocoel...

Memory

..., and identifies three distinct types of memory: sensory memory , short-term memory , and long-term memory . The sensory memory corresponds approximately to the initial moment that an item is perceived. Some of this info...

Human

..., but that instead there is simply a collection of sensory inputs and outputs: different kinds of software running in parallel, (Dennett, 1991). The idea that humans have a mind that is in some sense separate from their bodies, and that may be immaterial, is known as dualism , and was given its most powerfu...

Homunculus

...ontents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The sensory homunculus 2 The homunculus argument in philos...ulture 4 References 5 See Also The sensory homunculus The homunculus is also commonly used to describe the distorted human figure drawn to r...

Cilium

...nd arthropods only have non-motile cilia on some sensory nerve cells. Cilia are rare in plants occurring most notably in cycads . Protozoans ( ciliates ) possess motile cilia exclusively and use them for either locomotion or to simply move liquid over their surface. Most other organisms that have motile...

Brain

...es, among other goals. Visual, touch, and auditory sensory pathways of vertebrates are routed to the thalamu... of the cerebral cortex that are specific to each sensory system : the visual system , the auditory system and the somatosensory system . Olfactory pathwa...

Animal

...and often have a specialized head with feeding and sensory organs. The body is triploblastic, i.e. all three germ layers are well-developed, and tissues form distinct organs. The digestive chamber has two openings, a mouth and an anus, and there is also an internal body cavity called a coelom or pseudocoel...