Special Senses Pathways

Special Senses Pathways

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Front Back
Auditory receptors are in the _
Cochlea
First stop for auditory sensory pathway after the cochlea is the _ _
Brain stem
Auditory sensory pathway: cochlea, brain stem, _ _ _
Medial geniculate bodies
Auditory sensory pathway: cochlea, brain stem, medial geniculate bodies, _ _
Auditory cortex
The _ and _ neural pathways synapse in the geniculate bodies.
Auditory and optic
The auditory pathway reaches the _ geniculate bodies and the optic neural pathway reaches the _ geniculate bodies
Medial, lateral
The olfactory (smell) receptors send axons into two olfactory _
Bulbs
Structures in olfactory bulbs that contain: 25000 axons from receptor cells synapsing with dendrites of 2nd order olfactory neurons are called _
Glomeruli
From olfactory receptors, to olfactory bulbs, smell signals are uniquely sent to _ regions of the brain, before synapsing in the thalamus, and then cerebral cortex
Primitive
The area of the thalamus that the olfactory neural pathway reaches is _ _ _
Medial dorsal nucleus
Olfactory pathway: olfact. receptors, olfactory bulbs, primitive regions of cortex, Medial dorsal nucleus of _, and finally the cerebral cortex
Thalamus
Three cranial nerves that transmit taste are #, _, _, and _
7, 9, 10
The signals from the front 2/3 of the tougue travel on the _th cranial nerve
7
Signals from the back third of the tongue travel on the _th cranial nerve
9th
Taste signals from the epiglottis travel on the _th cranial nerve
10th