Sensory Extinction: Failure to report sensory stimuli from one region if another region is stimulated simultaneously, even though when the region in question is stimulated by itself, the stimulus is correctly reported.

 

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Sensory Extinction: Failure to report sensory stimuli from one region if another region is stimulated simultaneously, even though when the region in question is stimulated by itself, the stimulus is correctly reported.

Sensory Cortex: A region of the brain associated with the parietal lobe.

Sensory (Afferent) Pathways: The portion of the peripheral nervous system that carries information from the organs and tissues of the body to the central nervous system.

Sensory Input: Stimuli that the nervous system receives from the external or internal environment; includes pressure, taste, sound, light, and blood pH.

Sensory Neurons: Neurons that carry signals from receptors and transmit information about the environment to processing centers in the brain and spinal cord. Neurons carrying messages from sensory receptors . . . View Full Definition

Sensory: Relating to sensation , to the perception of a stimulus and the voyage made by incoming ( afferent ) nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers.

Secondary Extinction: The death of one population due to the extinction of another, often a food species.

Extinction Angle: The angle between a crystallographic direction, such as a face or cleavage plane, and the direction in which all light is blocked by a pair of crossed polarizers.

Extinction Meter: Early type of exposure calculator.

Mass Extinction: A time during which extinction rates are generally accelerated so that more than 50% of all species then living become extinct; results in a marked decrease in the diversity of organisms. Ma . . . View Full Definition