How is a specific sensory input distributed to many parts of the nervous system?

What will be an ideal response?


A single input is spread to many regions in the brain and spinal cord by the process of divergence, whereby the information from one neuronal pool is spread to many pools. The spread of information will allow many different responses to a single input.

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