Timeline for How does the brain know where a signal came from? What is the addressing system
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| Feb 20, 2014 at 21:33 | comment | added | Ilan | considering hairs you're a little bit wrong - the brain join skin regions in quadrants and each quadrant has about 1cm sides, thus you cannot differentiate 2 touches inside the same quadrant | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 21:29 | comment | added | Shasam | Well okay a specific sensation, is the brain processing the movement of hairs and does it know the location of every single hair. Well obviously it does because if you touch it lightly I know exactly where I was touched.. Or do you mean something else by specifics? | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 21:21 | comment | added | Ilan | the messages come from specific receptors and along any pathway there are interconnections for different regions. Your question is complex, so we cannot answer before you'll be more specific... | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 21:19 | comment | added | Shasam | I have just noticed this similar post biology.stackexchange.com/questions/550/… where the top comment says the way the brain distinguishes is largely unknown. | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 21:11 | comment | added | Shasam | Thanks for the answer but as I see it these are all just connections and how the conduction works, but somehow the tip of my little toe can send a variety of messages to the brain and it knows exactly which toe and which sensation, there must be some kind of addressing. Biology is so complex | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 20:34 | history | answered | Ilan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |