When a person touches a hot object with their hand, they quickly remove their hand without thinking about it. Which best describes the path that information takes in this scenario?

This is a reflex action: sensory neurons carry information about the heat to the spinal cord, where the signal is relayed to motor neurons so the hand moves away quickly. The reflex response can happen before the brain processes the sensation, so choice A, “from the sensory neurons to the spinal cord and then directly to the motor neurons,” best describes the path.

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