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Q: How do pressure waves in the cochlea lead to an action potential in the auditory nerve?
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Information about sound waves travels as action potentials via the auditory nerve from the cochlea to the lobe for processing.?

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Information about sound waves travels as action potentials via the auditory nerve from the cochlea to the lobe for processing?

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What was the effect of curare on eliciting an action potential?

It creates an action potential


An electrical impulse moving down an axon is called?

This is called action potential. Action potential is the change in electrical potential that occurs between the inside and outside of a nerve or muscle fiber when it is stimulated, serving to transmit nerve signals.


The action potential is generated when a stimulus?

When a stimulus stimulates a neuron above the threshold, the action potential is generated.


Why does curare create an action potential?

Curare does NOT create an action potential. It binds to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (which are primarily excitatory), and prevents the formation of an action potential.


Why does curare appear to generate an action potential?

It doesn't. I prevents an action potential from forming.


What transmission of the depolarization wave along the neurons membrane?

Action potential


Also called a nerve impulse transmitted by axons?

action potential


What is the difference between a compound action potential and a single action potential?

Single action potentials follow the "all or none" rule. That is, if a stimulus is strong enough to depolarize the membrane of the neuron to threshold (~55mV), then an action potential will be fired. Each stimulus that reaches threshold will produce an action potential that is equal in magnitude to every other action potential for the neuron. Compound action potentials do not exhibit this property since they are a bundle of neurons and have different magnitudes of AP's. Thus compound action potentials are graded. That is, the greater the stimulus, the greater the action potential.


Do axons carry action potentials away from the cell body?

The areas that have had the action potential are refractory to a new action potential.


Why does artifact always appear ahead of action potential?

Why does artifact always appear ahead of action potential?