Anatomy & Physiology › Section M · Somatic and autonomic nervous systems › Topic M.1
Sensory perception and the special senses
Everything you know about the world arrives as light, pressure, vibration or chemicals striking specialised receptors. This topic follows how those receptors turn each kind of stimulus into nerve signals, sense by sense.
In this topic
- From stimulus to perception
- Three ways to classify receptors
- The receptors of touch
- Worked example: classifying three receptors
- Taste: five qualities, three nerves
- Smell: a short route to memory
- Hearing: air, bone, fluid, hair cell
- Balance: vestibule and semicircular canals
- Vision: focusing and phototransduction
- Worked example: focusing errors
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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