How can a nerve distingiush between mild heat and severe heat?

Subject: How can a nerve distingiush between mild heat and severe heat?

Date: Sun Jul 23 15:23:39 2000
Posted by Vinod
Grade level: undergrad School: VHSC
City: Calicut State/Province: Kerala Country: INDIA
Area of science: Neuroscience
ID: 964380219.Ns

Message:


The all or none respose says that all stimuli above threshold stimulus causes
only equal excitations in a neuron. In that case how can we feel that a body is
slighlty hot or very hot?

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