Lecture 2.3: Touch

Question 1

Slowly-adapting mechanoreceptors

Answer 1

Merkel and ruffini

Question 2

Radiply-adapapting mechanoreceptors

Answer 2

Meissner and Pacinian

Question 3

Merkel complexes respond to

Answer 3

indentation

Question 4

Ruffini endings respond to

Answer 4

have a sustained response to skin movement

Question 5

Meissner receptors respond to

Answer 5

have a transient response to skin movement

Question 6

Pacinian receptors respond to

Answer 6

have a transient response to vibration

Question 7

Which mechanoreceptors have a larger receptive field?

Answer 7

Ruffini and Pacinian

Question 8

Mechanosensory afferents from the upper body synapse at

Answer 8

cuneate nucleus in the caudal medulla

Question 9

Mechanosensory afferents from lower body synapse at

Answer 9

gracile nucleus in the caudal medulla

Question 10

Second neuron in the mechanosensory pathway synapses in the

Answer 10

thalamus