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Sensory Systems
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Olfactory System
Processes smell; involves nasal cavity, olfactory epithelium, olfactory bulb, and olfactory cortex.
Gustatory System
Processes taste; involves taste buds on the tongue, nerve fibers, and gustatory cortex.
Auditory Pathway
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.
Visual System
Processes visual information; involves retina, optic nerves, optic chiasma, optic tracts, and visual cortex in the occipital lobe.
Somatosensory System
Processes touch, temperature, and pain; involves receptors in the skin, neural pathways, and somatosensory cortex.
Interoceptive System
Processes internal body sensations; involves receptors in internal organs communicating with the brain about hunger, thirst, and internal temperature.
Visual Pathway
Path of visual processing from the eye to the brain; involves retina, optic nerve, optic chiasma, lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), and visual cortex.
Auditory System
Processes sound; involves the outer ear, eardrum, ossicles, cochlea, auditory nerve, and auditory cortex in the temporal lobe.
Vestibular System
Processes balance and spatial orientation; involves semicircular canals, otolith organs, vestibular nerve, and vestibular nuclei.
Pain Processing
Processing of nociceptive signals; involves nociceptors, spinal cord, thalamus, and cerebral cortex.
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