Senses and Sensitivity

Lecture 1 – Sensory Transduction: Getting the Message

by A. James Hudspeth, PhD, MD

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  1.  1.  Start of Lecture 1
  2.  2.  Reasons for studying the senses; sense examples
  3.  3.  The capture and transduction of sensory information
  4.  4.  Demonstration: Genetic differences in taste reception
  5.  5.  The olfactory system
  6.  6.  Encoding the signal and transmission to the brain
  7.  7.  Demonstration: Signal transmission in a crayfish tail
  8.  8.  Question and answer session


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