Recently reviewing some of the bits and pieces of text we cut because they were just a bit too detailed for what we were trying to do, I marveled again about all this neurological clockwork. There’s an awful lot more going on, but I think the capabilities, concerns and mechanisms of these brain regions I have plenty to say in the upcoming book, but
Our trigeminal system consists of multiple coordinated sensory inputs based on more than a dozen receptor types. As I often do to get a grip on a subject, I found it helpful to diagram various parts of it. As the book was getting longer and longer, we decided we could do without the diagram, so I’m presenting it here. It’s a representation of the major touch sensing systems we use for mouthfeel/trigeminal sensations.