What are transducers and what is their function in sensory systems?
Why are they necessary? What are the transducers in the different sensory systems? • Define what an action potential is. Based on what you learned about the properties of action potentials, would you expect an action potential to change in voltage based on the magnitude of the physical stimulus? Why or why not? • Draw and label a neuron, be sure to include the synapse and the parts of the synapse. • Sensation begins when a receptor fires in response to a stimulus. Do you believe that perception also begin at this point in time? Why or why not? Use an example to support your answer. • Draw and label a side view of the cortex of the mammalian brain. What primary sensory function(s) occur in the four lobes? • What is myelin and how does it increase conduction speed within a neuron? • Consider a rambunctious but intelligent child, Calvin, who likes to play the living room stereo after his parents sent him to bed, and gone to bed themselves (if you recall, he and Hobbes dance to Beethoven p
