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ADVANCES IN PHYSIOLOGY EDUCATION
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 115-120Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/advan.90200.2008
Keywords
vibrissal system; mechanoreceptors; multifiber recordings; signal processing
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- Consejo de Investigaciones de la Universidad Nacional de Tucuman
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Albarracin AL, Farfan FD, Felice CJ. Laboratory experience for teaching sensory physiology. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 115-120, 2009; doi: 10.1152/advan.90200.2008.-The major challenge in laboratory teaching is the application of abstract concepts in simple and direct practical lessons. However, students rarely have the opportunity to participate in a laboratory that combines practical learning with a realistic research experience. In the Bioengineering Department, we started an experiential laboratory physiology to teach graduated students some aspects of sensorial physiology and exposes them to laboratory skills in instrumentation and physiological measurements. Students were able to analyze and quantify the effects of activation of mechanoreceptors in multifiber afferent discharges using equipment that was not overly sophisticated. In consequence, this practical laboratory helps students to make connections with physiological concepts acquired in theoretical classes and to introduce them to electrophysiological research.
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