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What kind of sense?
Chemical
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Mucus membrane
- collects chemicals from top of nostril
- must be moist
- part 1
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Receptor Cells
- collects chemicals 100 different types
- tentacle thingies
- part 2
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Olfactory bulb
- gathers info from receptor cells
- the bulblike thing
- part 3
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Olfactory cell
- sends info to the brain
- Transduction happaens here
- part 4
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Amygdala
- emotional impulses
- why smells so easily stimulate emotional memory--they skip the thalamus and go straight here
- part 5
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What parts of the brain?
- temporal lobe
- frontal lobe
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Transduciton
- the process of turning sensory information into neural impulses
- here, it takes place in the olfactory cell
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