To draw: The three touch receptors having overlapping receptive fields.
Introduction: There are five different sensory organs found in the body, namely skin, tongue, eyes, ear, and nose. Out of these five sensory organs, the neurons present in the skin also called as somatic neurons and the neurons associated with vision get activated as a result of the stimuli that fall on a particular region of the body called as receptive field.
To determine: The different regions that the brain can identify on the basis of input from the three receptors.
Introduction: The somatic neurons are responsible for collecting information from the receptor cells and convert the signal to the electrical or chemical signal and transmit it to the interneurons present in the spinal cord.
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