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Your Senses and Nervous System

The ruler will fall in less than 0.25 seconds. Your nervous system reacts quickly to catch the ruler before it falls.

How did your senses and nervous system work together to react?

Did you know?

Your nerves relay messages by electric impulses. Messages begin at the site of stimulus and move from one nerve to the next until they reach the brain. Your brain then decides what response to send back.

Something to think about: In this experiment, where is "the site of the stimulus" mentioned above?