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What is sensory perception?
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Specific receptor's response to an external/internal stimulus that initiates an action potential from the PNS to the CNS
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What is a specific response to an external/internal stimulus that initiates an action potential from the PNS to the CNS?
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Sensory perception
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What happens in turn of sensory perception?
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Reflex/integrated motor response occurs
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What is the receptor for touch?
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Mechanoreceptor
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What is the receptor for pain?
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Nociceptor
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What is the receptor for cold?
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Thermoreceptor
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Touch, pain, and cold are examples of stimuli that ascend specific spinal pathways to the ___ and then the _____ [post-central gyrus].
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-thalamus
-primary sensory cortex
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What is also known as the post-central gyrus?
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Primary sensory cortex
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What are the special senses?
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-olfaction
-taste
-vision
-hearing & equilibrium
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What nervous system are the special senses a part of?
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PNS
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What function and cranial nerves is taste?
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Gustation:
CN VII, IX, X
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What function and cranial nerves is olfaction?
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Smell:
CN I
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What cranial nerves functions for vision?
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CN II
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What cranial nerves functions for hearing and equilibrium?
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CN VIII
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Except for olfaction, all sensations first synapse in the __.
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Thalamus
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