touch

Question 1

what are the skin receptors

Answer 1

meissner’s corpuscles
pancinian corpuscles
merkel’s disks
Ruffini corpuscles

Question 2

what does touch mean

Answer 2

ability to detect and interpret stimuli that makes contact with skin

Question 3

what do the messner’s corpuscles detect

Answer 3

pressure
low frequency vibrations

Question 4

what do the pancinian corpuscles detect

Answer 4

transient pressure
high frequency vibrations

Question 5

what do the Merkel’s disks detect

Answer 5

light pressure

Question 6

what do the Ruffini corpuscles detect

Answer 6

stretches

Question 7

what is the somatosensory cortex

Answer 7

processes touch information
has a defined area for each body part, but some areas are larger than others - hands, face, lips

Question 8

what does the somatosensory cortex do

Answer 8

measures:
touch, temperature, pain
awareness of body
location of bodily senses
judging pressure + weight
object recognition with touch
storing sensory info

Question 9

what is pain

Answer 9

a warning signal from the brain that something is wrong

Question 10

how is pain detected

Answer 10

sensory neurons and nociceptors respond to impact
nociceptors attune to stimuli and send damage info to CNS