1. Our skin allows us to identify
which distinct types of sensations?
2. What is it that allows us to
make these distinctions?
3. What do we call muscle/joint
position awareness?
4. How do we use somatic sensory
information?
5. Distiguish between slowly
adapting receptors and rapidly adapting receptors.
6. Sensory input pours into the
CNS neurons in a topographically faithful manner. Explain this statement.
7. How does the cortical area
devoted to receiving information from a spot on the skin reflect the density of
sensory receptors there, and in turn the importance of that body area for
gathering information?
8. What determines the ability to
discriminate two points pushing on our skin as separate?
9. What happens to the information from different receptors at higher brain levels?
10. How do neurologists use two-point discrimination tests?