Physiology 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Glabrousness, Somatosensory System, Mechanoreceptor

• School: Western University
• Department: Physiology
• Course: Physiology 3120
• Professor: Anita Woods

Document Summary

Many kids start to lean braille the same time not blind kids will begin to read: the process is similar to the normal processes underlying the reading done with the eyes. If you were to lose the hand function, and all of a sudden dropping things (e. g. 3 things in one day), it would be highly unusual and detrimental to daily quality of life. Build codes related to intensity, and population codes that relate to which particular neurons are firing: different combinations of population codes associated with different receptors give influx into the central nervous system from the skin and tissues. Task: grab match and strike it: she can see the match, understands the match, etc. Experimental manipulation = inject anesthetic into her digital nerves: put syringe into 3 fingers (thumb, first digit, second digit) to remove the inputs from the few.