University of Michican Press, Ann Arbor, 1978. The same techniques can be applied for the study of nervous activity in cricket legs although experiments in crickets may be more difficult due to the smaller size of the organism. Nevertheless, it is assumed that the properties of sensory neurons are similar in these organisms. Students must generate a hypothesis that can be tested based on such experiments.
Joint proprioceptors have tonic properties.
A sensory axon is responsive to only to either stimulation of a hair or spine or joint. This list of hypotheses is by no means exhaustive and students may propose an original hypothesis to test. Each student must propose a hypothesis to the instructor for approval along with a description of the proposed experiments to evaluate that hypothesis. You must have the approval of the instructor before undertaking the experiments. You may be assisted by your classmates in conducting the experiments, but you alone are responsible for designing the experiment, collecting and analyzing the data, interpreting the results, and evaluating your hypothesis based on your data.