Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Conformational Change, Sodium Chloride, Alpha Wave

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

When you have a cold, you aren"t able to taste things very well. Taste and smell: when you eat, molecules travel up back of throat and some go into back of your nose. So you"re using your sense of smell in conjunction with taste: if your smell is knocked out, you can"t taste things as well. Separating the olfactory epithelium from the brain is the cribriform plate. Zoom in on olfactory bulb: imagine there"s olfactory cell sending projection to olfactory bulb. There are thousands of types of epithelial cells, each with dif receptor. Say this one is sensitive to benzene rings: when it binds to receptor, triggers events that cause cell to fire. All cells sensitive to benzene will fire to one olfactory bulb called a glomerulus: they then synapse on another cell known as a mitral/tufted cell that projects to the brain.