Receptors and receptive fields

What do proprioreceptors respond to?

What is proprioceptor tonic sensations?

What are proprioceptor phasic sensations?

Why are we not usually aware of tonic and phasic input?

What are visceroreceptors?

What are visceroreceptors?

What are exteroreceptors?

What fibres are involved with proprioreceptors?

What fibres are involved with visceroreceptors?

Where is merkels disc found?

What fibres are involved with exteroreceptors?

Is merkels disc slow or fast adapting?

Describe primary secondary and tertiary somatosensory?

Describe merkels disc

Describe ruffinis end organs

Describe the adaptation of ruff inis end organs?

What processes are ruff inis end organs involved in?

What is panican corpuscles?

Describe the adaptation of panician corpusle?

Describe meissners corpuscles?

Describe the adaptation of meissners corpuscles?

What is a receptive field?

Which receptive fields overlap?

When is the receptive field bigger?

Describe the receptive field of primary afferent neurone

What does the lateral surround inhibition do?

What is on centre? When does maximum firing occur?

Where must an action potential reach to get concious awareness of it?

Where is a sensation percieved to be when it is translated in the brain?

What is stevens function?

What are thermodynamic effects of receptors? What is involved with this?

What is deformation of terminal region? What causes it?

What use molecular recpeotrs?

What use molecular recpeotrs?

What do molecular recpeotrs do?

Chemoreceptors

Mechanoreceptors

Thermoreceptors

Nociceptors

Photoreceptors