The brain combines sensory information from multiple system including vision, smell, taste, hearing, and somatosensation, to control behavior. However, the mechanisms behind the comparison and ...

Reflex actions are quick because there is a direct link in the spinal cord called an inter neuron (between the sensory neuron and a motor neuron) that causes a muscle to make the protective response.

Now, research from the University of Chicago shows it plays a specific role in visual sensory processing as ... visual ...

Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in temperature). Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS. Relay neurons ...