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  2. Perceptual disturbance - Wikipedia

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    Perceptual disturbance or perceptual disorder may refer to: Perceptual disturbances or distortions, for instance with hallucinogenic drugs; Hallucinations, for instance visual or auditory hallucinations; Sensory processing disorder. Auditory processing disorder; Depersonalization-derealization disorder; Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder

  3. Transduction (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    The movement of the eardrum causes the bones of the middle ear (the ossicles) to vibrate. [5] [6] These vibrations then pass into the cochlea, the organ of hearing. Within the cochlea, the hair cells on the sensory epithelium of the organ of Corti bend and cause movement of the basilar membrane. The membrane undulates in different sized waves ...

  4. Axial skeleton - Wikipedia

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    3D medical animation still shot of human skull. The axial skeleton is the core part of the endoskeleton made of the bones of the head and trunk of vertebrates.In the human skeleton, it consists of 80 bones and is composed of the skull (28 bones, including the cranium, mandible and the middle ear ossicles), the vertebral column (26 bones, including vertebrae, sacrum and coccyx), the rib cage ...

  5. Ethmoid bone - Wikipedia

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    The ethmoid bone (/ ˈ ɛ θ m ɔɪ d /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek: ἡθμός, romanized: hēthmós, lit. 'sieve') is an unpaired bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the brain. It is located at the roof of the nose, between the two orbits. The cubical bone is lightweight due to a spongy construction.

  6. Sensory nervous system - Wikipedia

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    The visual system and the somatosensory system are active even during resting state fMRI Activation and response in the sensory nervous system. The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information.

  7. Proprioception - Wikipedia

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    Balance disorder – Physiological disturbance of perception; Body image – Aesthetic perception of one's own body; Body schema – Postural model that keeps track of limb position; Broken escalator phenomenon – Illusion when stepping onto a broken escalator

  8. Cortex (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    The cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the cerebrum, plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness. Cortical bone is the hard outer layer of bone; distinct from the spongy, inner cancellous bone tissue [2] Ovarian cortex is the outer layer of the ovary and contains the follicles.

  9. Inattentional blindness - Wikipedia

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    The following criteria are required to classify an event as an inattentional blindness episode: 1) the observer must fail to notice a visual object or event, 2) the object or event must be fully visible, 3) observers must be able to readily identify the object if they are consciously perceiving it, [3] and 4) the event must be unexpected and the failure to see the object or event must be due ...