How does the brain perceive the intensity of a stimulus?The type of stimulus?

Q: What stimulus elicits the behavior, and what physiological mechanisms mediate the response?

A: The study of animal behavior is called Ethology. Animal behaviors are shaped by evolution,…

Q: What cortex is involved in smell and memory?

A: Olfactory Cortex is involved in smell.

Q: How do sensory receptors collect information?

A: Sensory receptors are specialized epidermal cells that respond to environmental stimuli and consist…

Q: What is the receptive field?

A: The neuron is formed of dendrites and axon. The dendrites are projection-like structures that…

Q: How do your senses help you respond to different stimuli you encounter in your environment?

A: A sensory receptor, also known as a sense organ, is an organ that responds to stimuli in an…

Q: Describe how taste and smell works.

A: Smell and taste are known as the chemical senses as their receptors are sensitive to the food…

Q: What are the chemical senses? Explain in steps the process of tasting  and the process of smelling

A: The chemical sensory systems are mostly associated with the nose and mouth. The senses work…

Q: Summarize general principles of Sensory Stimulus Processing?

A: Sensory stimulus processing refers to the process in which the sensory stimulus is perceived,…

Q: Explain the significance of sensory transduction and sensory adaptation.

A: The brain is the central processing controlling unit of the body. Nervous coordination and signaling…

Q: Compare and contrast how the brain receives informationabout taste versus smell.

A: The sensory system is a system that involves sensory pathways, neural pathways, and brain parts…

Q: Explain the difference between the chemical senses

A: Humans have five basic senses. These are touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. These senses are…

Q: Contrast the general senses with the special senses?

A: In this type of Voluntary action (Sitting and running), the stimulus is carried out directly to the…

Q: Define and describe exteroceptors, interoceptors, and proprioceptors in terms of the general…

A: Sensory receptors are basically transducers that respond to a stimulus by changing it into a…

Q: give some examples of mechanoreceptors in your body and their functions?

A: These consist of sensory cell that detect mechanical pressure or distortion. Tactile receptors in…

Q: Describe the Specific Sensory Systems?

A: Senses are of two types. The general senses include somatic and visceral sensations.

Q: How is the sensation of smell created?

A: Nose is a supporting structure that allows the entry of air into the nasal cavity. The nasal cavity…

Q: What is a sensory modality?

A: The cutaneous sensory systems have many aspects by which the whole sensory information is carried…

Q: What is sensory adaptation?

A: Adaptation is defined as the physical or behavioural feature of an organism that will help them to…

Q: Why is saliva necessary to taste?

A: Animals poses some specialised structures to perceive the different type of changes(=stimuli)…

Q: Which cells are capable of perceiving the stimuli?

A: Stimulus - It is a noticeable change in the environment of an organism either externally or…

Q: Define general senses, list several types, and describe their receptors?

A: Sense is the ability to interpret stimuli that means by which brain receives information about the…

Q: Distinguish between sensory transduction and perception.

A: Ans: These are the two types of response of the brain to stimulus. The one is real and the other is…

Q: Where does the process of sensation occur in the body?

A: The passive mechanism of getting knowledge from the outside world into the body and to the brain is…

Q: Distinguish between the senses of static and dynamic equilibrium.

A: The equilibrium in the body is maintained by receptors in the saccule and utricle inside the head.…

Q: Why would reading for a long time lead to “eye fatigue,” whereaslooking at something distant is…

A: The eye is hollow, spherical visualizing organ of about 2.5 centimeters. It provides the ability to…

Q: Where does auditory information cross to the contralateral side of the body? What mechanism does the…

A: The auditory system interprets how humans hear and comprehend environmental noises. It consists of…

Q: Which lobe of human brain is associated with hearing?

A: The human brain is the central organ of the nervous system. Along with the spinal cord it makes up…

Q: In what ways are our senses of taste and smell similar, and how do they differ?

A: Senses of taste and smell are similar as they both combine at the back of the throat and when…

Q: Describe How do your senses help you respond to different stimuli you encounter in your environment?

A: Sensory receptors are special cells in each sense organ that respond to a certain form of stimulus.…

Q: The structure of the eye that responds immediately to light and dark environments is found which…

A: Introduction Eye:- It is our organ of vision, which has a specialized sense organ capable of…

Q: How is our sense of smell linked with the sense of taste?

A: The sense of smell and taste are very important as they elicit the response for food odor and deadly…

Q: Which part of the brain helps prioritize sensory information?

A: As we know brain is a network of billions of neurons which carry information and transport them in…

Q: What is an example of an unconscious response to visual information?

A: What are people's reactions to the world? Conscious and unconscious responses to stimuli are…

Q: What is meant by Auditory Communication ?

A: Communication is one of the important aspects of the life of organisms. It can be of different types…

Q: . nucleus of solitary tract

A: Gustatory cortex It is a brain structure responsible for taste perception. The primary gustatory…

Q: shortly say how is hearing similar to the sense of balance (both static and dynamic)?

A: Sense organs are essential for animals to get signals from their environment and modify their…

Q: Explain the roles of the sensory nerves in how do humans experience pain and tickling sensation?

A: Sensation is the ability of our body to feel things especially physical touch. It is the result of…

Q: How do the rods and cones process information, and what is the pathinformation travels from the eye…

A: The eye receives light reflected from objects (visual field) and converts it into electrical signals…

Q: Define sensation and perception. Do we have direct contact with our world, or is the world as we…

A: We presume the world through our sense of touch, smell, taste, ability to hear and visualize.…

Q: What role does input from the vestibular nerve play in regulating posture (lying down, sitting up,…

A: The vestibular nerve is one of the two branches of the vestibulocochlear nerve, the other being the…

Q: How is mindful listening important?

A: Listening is one of the major part or cornerstone of an effective communication that aids in…

Q: What initates the reflex movement of the head toward an auditory stimulus (such as a loud noise)?

A: The brainstem (posterior part of the brain) links the prosencephalon and cerebellum to the spinal…