Question

Create a reflex -response loop for a muscle that can be used while dancing. Include stimulus, receptor, afferent pathway, integrating car, efferent pathway, efferent target, predicted response.

Answer 1

Dancing requires coordination of the spinal reflexes as well as balance and coordination.
For eg : while dancing when the sole of foot touches the ground (stimulus), the cutaneous receptors (receptors) sensitive to touch sends sensory information to the spinal cord (integrating centre) through sensory nerves of foot (afferent pathway). The spinal cord elicits a response in response to stimulus through stimulation of tibial nerve (S1, S2) which acts as the efferent pathway and results in contraction of gastrocnemeus and soleus muscle (efferent target) to produce plantar flexion (response).