Sensory

olfaction

smelling

gustation

tasting

uses chemoreceptors

olfactions and gustation

uses photoreceptors

vision

uses mechanoreceptors

hearing

The only receptors that do not undergo sensory adaptations are

pain receptors

**When your body takes in information but your brain has not yet interpreted it yet.**

sensation

**When your brain is able to process the information.**

perception

**nicknamed the hammer**

malleus

**nicknamed the anvil**

incus

**nicknamed the stirrup**

stapes

\n **Directs sound vibrations.**

vestibule

**A coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses**

cochlea

**Three canals within the inner ear that contain specialized receptor cells that generate nerve impulses with body movement.**

semicircular canals

**equalizes air pressure between air and inner ear**

**auditory or eustachian tube**

sees color

cones

sees black and white

rods

**middle layer of the eye contains blood vessels**

choroid coat

**Changes the shape of the lens**

ciliary body

shape of the lens is

biconvex

bending of light

refraction