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Which of the following pathways most correctly describes the movement of a sound wave through the ear?

True or false. If a person is spinning in a chair towards the right, the endolymph will also circle right. 

If I drive to work, but I left later than normal, so I might speed. How might I detect this increase in speed?

_________________ cells have a massive increase in action potentials, which rapidly fall off per unit time (they become desensitized).

[A] ________________ pigment is most concentrated in your cones, while [B]_______________ pigment is most concentrated in your rods.

A person is looking with both eyes to their right. Based on what you know about the cranial nerves and their targets in the eye, which cranial nerves are activated in which eye so this can happen.  It may help to draw yourself a picture. 

   Refer to the image.  Consider the person’s right eye.  What cranial nerve is responsible for it’s movement in the image?

You are checking someone’s pupillary reflex. Name the structure where the information synapses.

Refer to the image above. What is the innervation of the muscle indicated by the pointer A? 

The Snellen test would be used to test