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Olfactory System

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Processes smell; involves nasal cavity, olfactory epithelium, olfactory bulb, and olfactory cortex.

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Gustatory System

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Processes taste; involves taste buds on the tongue, nerve fibers, and gustatory cortex.

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Auditory Pathway

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Path of auditory processing from the ear to the brain; involves cochlea, cochlear nerve, superior olivary complex, inferior colliculus, medial geniculate nucleus, and auditory cortex.

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Visual System

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Processes visual information; involves retina, optic nerves, optic chiasma, optic tracts, and visual cortex in the occipital lobe.

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Somatosensory System

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Processes touch, temperature, and pain; involves receptors in the skin, neural pathways, and somatosensory cortex.

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Interoceptive System

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Processes internal body sensations; involves receptors in internal organs communicating with the brain about hunger, thirst, and internal temperature.

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Visual Pathway

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Path of visual processing from the eye to the brain; involves retina, optic nerve, optic chiasma, lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), and visual cortex.

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Auditory System

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Processes sound; involves the outer ear, eardrum, ossicles, cochlea, auditory nerve, and auditory cortex in the temporal lobe.

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Vestibular System

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Processes balance and spatial orientation; involves semicircular canals, otolith organs, vestibular nerve, and vestibular nuclei.

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Pain Processing

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Processing of nociceptive signals; involves nociceptors, spinal cord, thalamus, and cerebral cortex.

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