Chapter 8 – General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch and Pain

sensory organ?

Receptor cell?

labelled lines

receptor potentials

Coding 2pts

adaptation

receptive field

Specialized body components, collectively called sensory ---------- organs, are sensitive to energies of various sorts that come into contact with the body. The job of these organs is to convert environmental energy into ---------- signals .

a good deal of processing and transforming of sensory information occurs in the -------- nervous system.

Sensory information enters the CNS through the ----------and then reaches the -------- for most senses. The ------ shares the information with the -------------, which directs the thalamus to suppress some sensations. Primary sensory cortex swaps information with ----------- sensory cortex.

range fractionation