SensesStimuliare changes inside or outside the body that cause a response. In theSensesGizmo, you will explorehow different sense organs detect stimuli from the environment and send messages about that stimulus to thebrain.Activity A:Senses and the brainGet the Gizmo ready:On the NEURAL PATHWAYS tab, clickResetIntroduction:The brain is organized into different regions that have different functions. Most sensoryinformation is processed in thecerebrum, the “wrinkly” area that forms the outer part of the brain. The nervesthat connect a sense organ to the part of the brain responsible for that sense is called the neural pathway.Question: What happens when stimuli are detected by sense organs?1.Observe: Drag the apple into theStimulusbox and the tongue into theSense organbox. ClickPlayA.What does the tongue detect?B.What happens along the neural pathway when the tongue detects the stimulus?..
