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    This document discusses several key properties of sensory receptors and sensory systems, including the types of responses receptors exhibit and how stimuli are encoded. It explains that sensory receptors only respond to unique adequate stimuli, such as photoreceptors responding only to light, and that receptor responses can be graded or all-or-none. Additionally, it covers topics such as frequency and population coding of stimulus intensity, localization and distribution of receptors, receptive fields, and the multi-order pathway that sensory information travels through the brain and nervous system.

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    This document discusses several key properties of sensory receptors and sensory systems, including the types of responses receptors exhibit and how stimuli are encoded. It explains that sensory receptors only respond to unique adequate stimuli, such as photoreceptors responding only to light, and that receptor responses can be graded or all-or-none. Additionally, it covers topics such as frequency and population coding of stimulus intensity, localization and distribution of receptors, receptive fields, and the multi-order pathway that sensory information travels through the brain and nervous system.

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    Type of Responses - Adaptation: Properties of Sensory Receptors

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    This document discusses several key properties of sensory receptors and sensory systems, including the types of responses receptors exhibit and how stimuli are encoded. It explains that sensory receptors only respond to unique adequate stimuli, such as photoreceptors responding only to light, and that receptor responses can be graded or all-or-none. Additionally, it covers topics such as frequency and population coding of stimulus intensity, localization and distribution of receptors, receptive fields, and the multi-order pathway that sensory information travels through the brain and nervous system.

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    Properties of Sensory Receptors:

    Type of responses
    Adaptation
    Properties of Sensory Systems:
    Coding of information
    Receptive fields
    Sensory acuity
    Lateral inhibition
    Decussation

    Adequate stimulus
    A specific stimulus unique to a sensory receptor
    Photoreceptors respond only to electromagnetic
    radiation, hair cells respond only to sound
    waves, etc

    Graded vs All-or-none
    Receptor response to a stimulus is graded (non
    regenerative)
    Some Receptors display purely graded
    responses
    Others can generate action potentials when
    threshold is exceeded

    How is the intensity of the


    stimulus encoded?
    Frequency coding
    Population coding

    Localization, Distribution and


    Acuity
    1. CODING of LOCATION depends on
    Receptor Location
    2. AREA covered by receptors in a sensory
    unit is a RECEPTIVE FIELD
    3. ACUITY depends on the DENSITY of
    receptors

    Sensory pathway
    *First order neurons receptor
    brainstem/spinal cord
    *Second order neurons nucleus
    thalamus
    *Third order neurons thalamus
    cerebral cortex
    *Higher order neurons- in cerebral cortex

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