Question

Imagine rubbing your fingertips across a pane of smooth glass and then across a brick. What kinds of skin receptors help you distinguish the two surfaces?

Answer 1

1)Meissner corpuscles

2) Pacinian corpuscles

3) Merkel Cells

Step-by-step explanation:

These receptors mentioned above contributes to the tactile preception of the texture of the surface. As the smooth glass surface is smooth while the surface of the brick is slightly rough, these receptors senses it and produces a response. The meissner corpuscles are innervated by rapidly adapting afferents , Pacinian corpuscles are innervated by Pacinian afferents while Merkel cells are innervated by slowly adapting type 1 afferents.