Question

If you insert a stimulating electrode into a cutaneous mechanoreceptor neuron in your finger and stimulate it, causing it to fire faster and faster, you will experience:

A No sensation, because nothing is actually touching your skin.

B The sensation of increasing non-painful pressure on your skin.

C The sensation that something is tapping your skin at a faster and faster rate.

D The sensation of increasing non-painful pressure on your skin, transitioning to painful pressure once the neuron is firing at a very fast rate.

Answer 1

If you insert a stimulating electrode into a cutaneous mechanoreceptor neuron in your finger and stimulate it, causing it to fire faster and faster, you will experience: A No sensation, because nothing is actually touching your skin. B The sensation of increasing non-painful pressure on your skin. C The sensation that something is tapping your skin at a faster and faster rate. DThe sensation of increasing non-painful pressure on your skin, transitioning to painful pressure once the neuron is firing at a very fast rate. With increase in stimulation of cutaneous mechanoreceptor neuron and causing it to fire repeatedley, it results in causing painful pressure.