CONCLUSION
The somatosensory systems provide accurate information about the location and temporal features of stimuli and about sharp pain, tactile stimuli and the position and movement of body parts.
The somatosensory systems process information about, and represent, several modalities of somatic sensation via its receptors. These receptors are located in specialized receptor organs, produce receptor potentials, contain synaptic specializations, and release neural transmitters. Somatosensory receptors send information via pathways consists of the chain of neurons, from receptor organ to cerebral cortex, that are responsible for the perception of sensations. Although it is convenient to subdivide somatosensory receptors and pathways for didactic, clinical and research purposes, it is important to keep in mind that most somatosensory stimuli act simultaneously and in varying degrees on all somatosensory receptors in the body part stimulated.
Source:
Rana Tanmoy (ed.). Principles of Veterinary Animal Physiology. CRC Press,2026. — 290 p.. 2026
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