Q.How does the tongue detect the sensation of taste?

Mechanoreceptors: skin/muscles/joints — sense touch/pressure.

Each receptor type is located where its specific physical stimulus acts and generates an appropriate sensory reflex.

Mechanoreceptors are distributed in the skin, muscles, tendons and joint capsules; they respond to mechanical stimuli such as touch, pressure, stretching or vibration, allowing perception of touch and proprioception (body position sense). Statoacoustic receptors are located in the inner ear: the cochlea (organ of Corti) detects sound vibrations for hearing, while the semicircular canals, utricle and saccule of the vestibular apparatus detect changes in head position and movement, maintaining balance/equilibrium. Baroreceptors are stretch receptors located in the walls of large blood vessels, especially the carotid sinus and aortic arch; they detect changes in blood pressure (vessel wal …