When a receptor cell detects a specific kind of stimulus, what happens to the stimulus energy? TABLE

When a receptor cell detects a specific kind of stimulus, what happens to the stimulus energy?

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TABLE 14.3 Animated! Summary of Major Types of Sensory Receptors Category Examples Mechanoreceptors Touch, pressure Baroreceptors Stretch Auditory Balance Thermoreceptors Nociceptors (pain receptors) Chemoreceptors Internal chemical sense Taste Smell Osmoreceptors Photoreceptors Visual Certain free nerve endings and Merkel's discs in skin Carotid sinus (artery) Muscle spindle in skeletal muscle Hair cells in organ inside ear Hair cells in organ inside ear Certain free nerve endings (heating, cooling) Certain free nerve endings Carotid bodies in blood vessel wall Taste receptors of tongue Olfactory receptors of nose Hypothalamic osmoreceptors Rods, cones of eye Stimulus Mechanical pressure against body surface Pressure changes in blood Stretching of muscle Vibrations (sound waves) Fluid movement Change in temperature Tissue damage (e.g., distortions, burns) Substances (O₂, CO₂, etc.) dissolved in extracellular fluid Substances dissolved in saliva, etc. Molecules in air Change in water volume (solute concentration) of fluid around them Wavelengths of light