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Impulses that stimulate the olfactory receptors are transmitted along the?
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What type of nerve conducts impulses to the olfactory bulbs?
Sensory neuron
What is the pathway of smell from the olfactory receptors to the brain?
The olfactory bulb is a small , match-head sized organ in the top of the nasal cavity,and is connected to hundreds of olfactory hairs, or cilia, which lie in a layer of mucous. These have receptor sites, and it is still not well understood how these work, but one theory is that the shape of the molecule (of the substance being smelt) and the way in which it locks onto the receptor determines the impulses sent to the brain. (the bulb is thought of as a direct extension of the brain) If this is true, it may help explain why with prolonged exposure to a smell, you will stop smelling it until you go outside and clear the nose and come back.The receptor sites become saturated with the molcules and stop sending nerve impulses.
What lobe is responsible for receiving impulses from the nerve of the eye?
The Olfactory bulb via the olfactory nerves in the nose.
What are the main function of the olfactory nerve is?
The olfactory nerves' main function is to transmit impulses fron our nose to the brain. It is these nerves that help us to identify smell.
Does the olfactory tract carry equilibrium impulses?
No. The ears and eyes work together to produce equilibrium, not the nose.
What impulses are transmitted by the sense of smell?
The smell receptors are called olfactory nerves
Process of smelling?
So, we just learned this in anatomy. You breathe in an odogen. The odogen binds with protein receptors in the olfcatory cilium. A potential travels on an axon the olfactory receptor cells synapsing in the olfactory bulb. Then the filaments of the olfactory nerve synapses with mitral cells causing impulses to flow from the olfactory bulbvia the olfactory tracts.
What is the nerve for smell?
The olfactory nerves are cranial nerves( arise from the brain ). olfactory nerve is the first nerve among the all cranial nerves. olfactory nerves passes sense of smell through nerve impulses( chemical=neurotransmitters, and electrical signals ).
What cranial nerve carries smell impulses to the brain?
The olfactory nerve, also known as the first cranial nerve, transports impulses for sense of smell to the brain. The olfactory nerve is capable of regeneration.
Which nerve carries impulses from the cells that detect smells?
The olfactory nerve carries impulses from odor-detecting cells to the brain.
Impulses carried by the olfactory nerve are for the sense of?
Smell
What nerve carries impulses from the nose?
Olfactory Nerve
What does nerve impulses stimulate?
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Smell impulses are carried by the cranial nerve called the?
The olfactory nerve, or 1st cranial nerve.
What receives stimuli and forms impulses?
Receptors or more precisely, sensory receptors.
What type of nerve conducts impulses to the olfactory bulbs?
Sensory neuron
How are nerve impulses initiated and transmitted?
Nerve impulses are initiated and transmitted according to nerve reactions and messages that get passed along or transmitted along nerve synapses and zones.
