Bizarre Take #4: The Crazy World of Sensory Transmission

Bizarre Take #4: The Crazy World of Sensory Transmission (strap in for this one : D)





So we all know our 5 senses right? Smell, Taste, Touch, Hearing, and Eyesight – the 5 senses that have been drilled into our heads since elementary school. Well, we don't just get this information randomly; there's a certain process called Sensory Transmission! Super formal name, I know! Sensory information travels through what is commonly known to all of us as the nervous system, which contains all of our, well you guessed it, nerves! This is usually done through nerve impulses, or whats known as action potential.


Now, action potentials aren't just some cool Transformers thing. It's a series of voltage changes in a membrane that can be generated by neurons. Kinda reminds me of the Flash, not sure why! This can usually happen with sensory receptors, which can travel along an axon. However, there's another type of transmission as well. A sensory receptor without any neutrons cannot transmit action potentials; instead it conveys information to a different neuron using chemical synapse. All this chemical signaling business canuses the sensory information that enters the CNS to be entered in the form of action potential, adding onto the craziness.




However, it doesn't stop there. The size of the action potential increases with how intense the stimulus is. A stimulus is something that causes a change or action to occur, so this is a pretty big deal. If the receptor is a sensory neuron, there are more frequent action potentials, so the more the merrier! However, if it doesn't recognize it as a sensory neuron, then more neurotransmitters are released. Either way, it's a win-win, since your body recognizes the sense, whether it's a smell, or a taste! Now, these action potentials are generated at a surprisingly low rate, making it more confusing for the body to decide what the sense is! However, the stimulus change allows action potential to be produced easier, allowing the nervous system to make changes accordingly.



  • Certified Genius,

Prisha P :D

Comments

  1. Jessica DuncanOctober 1, 2023 at 3:05 PM

    I love all the exclamation points you used and references to movies that made reading this more exciting and engaging

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousOctober 1, 2023 at 6:45 PM

    Your use of so many exclamations throughout made me excited about the topic too, lol; I really liked how you used the allusion to the Flash to create a comparison between the superhero and the action potential, it made the topic so much more easier to understand.
    - Divya

    ReplyDelete
  3. RyanOctober 1, 2023 at 7:25 PM

    I really enjoyed your use of references and allusions to pop culture and other pieces of media, it really helped your blog feel not only informal and casual, but very topical and conversational due to how commonly pop culture comparisions are used in actual conversations or are the topics/subjects of conversations nowadays.

    ReplyDelete
  4. AnonymousOctober 1, 2023 at 7:45 PM

    I love your references and the tone of your writing! I think the rhetorical question with other techniques you used also helped the writing be more conversational.
    -Sukruta

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bizarre Take #7 - Diving Deeper into the World of Dreams with my Buddy Hughes!

Image
Bizarre Take #7 - Diving Deeper into the World of Dreams with my Buddy Hughes! For this week’s blog, we were assigned to research some more poems by renowned author Langston Hughes, and dive deeper into its meaning. When I was researching, a poem quickly caught my eye. It was titled “Harlem”. Now, my first thought was immediately the Harlem Renaissance, and as my interest was obviously peaked, I decided to choose this as my poem. While annotating I noticed several clever word and language choices Hughes pursued throughout this poem. Hughes opens with a rhetorical question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” This gives the audience something to think about and explore throughout the rest of the poem before he builds up to the main theme. For example, he utilized quite a lot of figurative language, such as similes, when he wrote “like a raisin in the sun”. This use of similes compared the idea of dreams to various different items, such as a shriveled up raisin to represent a broken drea...
Read more

Bizarre Take #1: Idealization of Death

Image
Bizarre Take #1:Idealization of Death Death is a very interesting yet daunting concept. I mean, when the topic is brought up, usually the whole room goes silent and an awkward sense of eeriness spreads across the room. No one really talks about it, and usually people find a way to slip into another conversation. But as time has gone on, we have become so desensitized to the notion of death that it is simply characterized as a part of life. Not the end of life, just a second half to it. After our life is over, we get a new chance to live. A new chance to redo what we want and maybe approach things differently. At least I like to think of death this way. Not just something that announces the end, but as something that invites a new path. This exact theory is what feeds into my fantasies and lets me make up stories about the dead coming to life, through shadows. (you have definitely seen this image in your dreams somewhere, don't lie!) In English Class, we talked about “Postcards from...
Read more

Think Abstract! :)

Image
Metrophobia. An irrational fear of poetry. It sounds kind of absurd -- how can someone be afraid of words stringed together on a page? However, it may be a bit more common than you think. Many people tend to resist poetry, shy away from it at times. Something about this art form, so cryptic yet intimidating, scares people away from its beauty. The Road Not Taken. Written by Robert Front, this poem is regarded as a classic amongst many, having deep meaning within its stances. A poem that first stuck out to me when I read it. At first, I wasn't sure how to interpret its essence, as I quickly got hung up on the direct meaning of the words. I fixated my attention on the words, for example on the line,  To where it bent in the undergrowth;, or the line,  And both that morning equally lay.  I forced myself to try to understand what these lines meant. I think that's one of the ways we self-sabotage our ability to understand poems. We look for direct meaning in something, taking ...
Read more