The vestibular apparatus is located completely inside the head. If you close your eyes, how can you tell if the rest of your body is tilted with respect to gravity?

Q: Name the senses that begin to function in utero:

A: There are different senses present in the human body. These senses are developed even before the…

Q: Describe the role of the vestibular apparatus in maintaining equilibrium.

A: The pair of ears is the sensory organ responsible for hearing and maintenance of the equilibrium of…

Q: What is the relationship between head movement and cupulamovement in a semicircular canal?

A: Semicircular canal is one the important balancing part of the body. these are 3 small fluid filled…

Q: Explain how a sensation is different from a perception.

A: Sensation and perception represent two interrelated processes developed by an individual throughout…

Q: Discuss the role that inertia plays in the physiology of the vestibular apparatus. Why is there no…

A: Ear is categorized as sensory organ that is related with functions of the hearing and for…

Q: Part of vestibular apparatus responsible for maintaining balance during angular acceleration while…

A: The central system and the peripheral system forms the vestibular system. The central system is…

Q: What additional sensory information would you expect a person with impairment of organs of…

A: Proprioception refers to the ability of a person to recognize the body parts, location of head and…

Q: Why does a Dichotic Listening task involve binaural hearing?

A: Dichotic Listening is the auditory process that involves listening with both ears.Dichotic listening…

Q: Why are the neurons in the earlier stages of the sensory pathways necessary for perception?

A: Humans experience senses like touch, pain, etc because of the sensation or sensory pathways for…

Q: All the following are components of the vestibular apparatus, except :-a- crista ampullarisb-…

A: The ear is the hearing organ and it is divided into three segments that include the inner, outer,…

Q: Can a split-brain person name an object after feeling it with the right hand? With the left hand?…

A: Split-brain person are those in which the right and left hemisphere are connected to each other and…

Q: How is the sensory mechanism of the semicircular ducts similar to that of the saccule and utricle?

A: Introduction: The ears are organs that give two principle functions that are hearing and equilibrium…

Q: Give Effect of head position on otolith organ of the utricle?

A: The displacements and the accelerations of the head ( tilting and other transitional movements) are…

Q: Explain why looking at a close object causes fatigue interms of how accommodation is accomplished

A: The eye is the central organ for vision. It is made up of 3 layers- choroid, sclera and retina. The…

Q: You are firing your laser cannon from your position on the bridge of your starship. You see the…

A: Sense organs are those which contains sensory neurons. These organs perceive the stimulus and…

Q: Explain how the vestibular apparatus provides information about changes in the position of our body…

A: Anatomy and physiology are the branches of biology, anatomy deals with the study of the structure of…

Q: Despite the presence of the blind spot, you do not consciously experience a “hole” in your vision.…

A: The blind spot is where the blood vessels and optic nerve leaves the eyeball. The optic nerve and…

Q: hat power of accommodation of the eye, when object viewed from 20- 500cm from his eye.?

A: Eye power accommodation is changing the shape of lens and adjusting the focal length is states as…

Q: Why would you expect a person with impairment of the organs of equilibrium to become more…

A: The organs of hearing and equilibrium are a pair of ears which are situated on the sides of the…

Q: If a woman with a severed corpus callosum viewed a photograph of a familiar face, first in her left…

A: Corpus callosum is a bundle of nerve fibres which attaches both cerebral hemisphere, and it is…

Q: Compare the structure and function of the saccule and utricle with that of the semicircular canals…

A: The ear in mammals functions as an organ for balance and equilibrium along with hearing. The inner…

Q: ) Structures essential to the dectection of linear acceleration include the _____. A) tympanic…

A: Otoliths are essential for detection of linear acceleration. Hence option (c) is right option

Q: Assuming that someone is looking forwards while sitting in an office chair, which structure is most…

A: There are three types of semicircular canals in the bony labyrinth of the inner ear, those are…

Q: When you stimulate conduction deafness, why can you still hear the tuning fork when it is on your…

A: The deafness due to conductive loss is analyzed through the Rinne’s test. It works on the principle…

Q: When the eyes are closed, what sensory organs provide such information?

A: The active maintenance of equilibrium requires appropriate sensory functions. Balance is achieved…

Q: Paralysis of a medial rectus muscle would affect (a) accommodation,(b) refraction, (c) depth…

A: There are six extrinsic eye muscles that help to keep the eyeball in shape. They also regulate the…

Q: Would you have expected to have found more tactile corpuscles and Merkel discs on the palm or on the…

A: Mechanoreceptors are receptors that detect and relay somatosensory information.  There are four…

Q: Why is the sense of gravity considered a sense of equilibrium?

A: In the human ear, sound enters the outer ear and vibrates the three bones of the middle ear (hammer,…

Q: Peripheral senses are also involved in proprioception and let us know where our body parts are in…

A: Control and coordination is the significant aspect in the life of every organism. Organisms respond…

Q: What do you mean by gustatoreceptors? Where are they present?

A: Sensory receptors occur in specialized organs such as the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, as well as…

Q: fibers project from the optic chiasm to the midbrain?

A: The optic chiasm is an X-shaped structure formed by the crossing of the optic nerves in the brain.…

Q: What is the difference between dorsal view and ventral view?

A: Anatomical terminologies refer to the precise location of the tissue or organ in the body. The…

Q: What difference did you note in the size of the pupils when one eye was exposed to bright light and…

A: Eyes are sense organs. The amount of light entering the eye is controlled by the pupil and this…

Q: al rectus Moves eyeball superiorly I rectus [Choose ] [Choose ] Preserve medial stability of the e…

A: There are six muscles that attach to the eye to move it. These muscles originate in the eye socket…

Q: Would you have expected to have found more tactile corpuscies and Merkel discs on the palrm or on…

A: Mechanoreceptors are receptors that detect and relay somatosensory information.  There are four…

Q: Your sister sits beside you as you watch your friend surf, but she cannot see him because she is…

A: Question is related to problem in the vision.  Detailed solution in step 2.

Q: Assuming that someone is looking forwards while sitting in an office chair, which structure is most…

A: There are three types of semicircular canals in the bony labyrinth of the inner ear, those are…

Q: When the eyes are open, what sensory organs provide information needed to maintain equilibrium?

A: Eyes are the organ involved in vision. These detect light and changes it into electrochemical…

Q: In what way does the overall magnitude of a stimulus affect the just-noticeable difference in the…

A: Introduction: The duration of the impulse varies depending on the degree of the stimulation. Sensory…

Q: How would removing your conjunctiva effect your sight?

A: Conjunctiva is a thin semipermeable mucous membrane, covers the inner surface of the eyelid and the…