Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sensory modalities
- Each type of sensory neuron can
respond to only one type of stimulus
- General senses
- Somatic
- Tactile sensations (touch, pressure, vibration)
- Thermal
- pain
- Proprioceptive (perception of both static positions of
limbs & body parts & movements of limbs & head
- Visceral
- Info about conditions within internal organs, eg pressure,
stretch, chemicals, nausea, hunger & temp
- Special senses
- Smell, taste, vision, hearing, balance