Question: 11. Procedure 1. You will need to partner with someone in your house to do this experiment. (A third person is helpful as a timer

 11. Procedure 1. You will need to partner with someone in

your house to do this experiment. (A third person is helpful as

11. Procedure 1. You will need to partner with someone in your house to do this experiment. (A third person is helpful as a timer if available but not essential). Face that person and hold each other's hands so that you are both capable of squeezing each other's hand. The rst person is instructed to squeeze the le hand of the other person with their right hand. As soon as the other person feels the squeeze, they can squeeze the rst person's left hand with their right hand. Then you will continue the cycle. As soon as the rst person feels the squeeze on their left hand, they squeeze the second person's left hand and on and on. In this way you have now made a loop of conduction (basically a human circuit). What is the neural signaling process involved in this? Tactile detectors in the left hand detect a squeeze, a neural impulse travels from their hand up their arm and to their dorsal root ganglia (clusters of neurons) next to the spinal cord where it connects to (synapses with) another set of neurons that send signals up the spinal cord to the brain, where various things happen (including activating the memory instruction to now squeeze with the right hand), neural signals commence to orchestrate the appropriate muscle movement and several synapses later the right hand squeezes the hand of the other person. Draw a sketch of this process in the space below

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