Senses and Sensitivity

Lecture 1 – Sensory Transduction: Getting the Message

by A. James Hudspeth, PhD, MD

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

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