This reflex is also known as a "reflex arc". It is a negative feedback circuit that is comprised of three main components:. The knee reflex arc is a spinal reflex, and the circuit is drawn above. This picture shows how the sensory afferent neuron sends information through the dorsal root ganglion into the spinal cord; where the signal splits into two different paths. The first is the motor neuron efferent leading back to the quadriceps.
When your quad muscle's motor neuron receives the information it fires and causes your lower leg to spring forward up in the air. The second signal from the sensory neuron travels to an interneuron which sends a signal to the motor neuron efferent leading to the hamstring. This signal tells your hamstring to relax so there is no negative force acting on the quadriceps muscle when it contracts. Both signals work together and all of this happens in the spinal cord without going to the brain. It never needs the brain.
You may be asking how a knee reflex arc and a soccer player dealing with an oncoming ball are different. Are both not reflexes? While it may seem that a soccer player negotiating an oncoming ball is a simple fast reflex, it is actually a symphony of hundreds of thousands of neurons working together to produce a conscious decision.
Does the player catch, dodge, or bat away the ball? This choice is what makes a reaction. When a soccer player realizes the ball is blistering towards him, there is visual information that has to be processed and decisions regarding a correct course of action. The brain then needs to send many signals to various muscles. Feet begin to move, hands might travel in front of the face, and eyes may close shut, along with many more processes. This is the work of many neurons as well as numerous systems and circuits in the brain, and what's more, and you can train and enhance your skill through practice.
This is how you get better at sports over time. Like all science, the history of the reaction time discovery is peculiar. Dutch physiologist F. Donders in began to think about human reaction time and if it was measurable. Prior to his studies scientists thought that human mental processes were too fast to be measured. This assumption was proved incorrect with the help of Charles Wheatstone, an English scientist and inventor.
In Wheatstone invented a device, much like his early telegraph system invention, that recorded the velocity of artillery shells. Gravity pulls all objects toward Earth's center at the same speed.
If you want to try this out at home, try dropping a tennis ball and a basketball from the same height: They should both hit the ground at the same time!
To make things easier, we've provided a chart, above, that you can print or copy out on a piece of paper. The basic rule: milliseconds translates into about two inches or five centimeters. You only need two people for this activity, but it's also great for a group. Leave five spaces below each name. Your partner's fingers should be just below the ruler, but as close as possible to the bottom edge without touching or overlapping. Your partner will need to catch the ruler as quickly as he or she can, pinching the ruler between his or her fingers.
How fast did your partner appear to act? Did your partner's fingers pinch near the zero line? Was your partner as fast as you thought? Does your partner's reaction time change? Are the five reaction times different? Vary when you drop the ruler: For example, you could drop on the count of five first, then drop on two. Do most people have a similar reaction time? Are older people faster than younger people? Are girls faster than boys?
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June 14, 2 min read. The normal reaction time , like most other things about the human body, is not constant. It differs from person to person and also depends on what sensory regime the stimulus belongs to.
That was the mathematical part of reaction time, but what about the physiological aspect? Reaction time, in the simplest words, is the time it takes to detect a stimulus and respond to it.
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