How is the brain able to differentiate between each sensory modality? A The action potentials, sent along the same nerve tracts, get sorted by the thalamus B The action potentials for each sense are sent along separate nerve tracts. C Each sense uses different neurotransmitters. D Each sensory input, passing through the same tracts, triggers action potentials in different patterns.

Female luna moths (actias luna) attract males by emitting chemical signals that spread through the air. a male hundreds of meters away can detect these molecules and fly toward their source. the sensory organs responsible for this behavior are the comblike antennae visible in the photograph shown here. each filament of an antenna is equipped with thousands of receptor cells that detect the sex attractant. based on what you learned in this chapter, propose a hypothesis to account for the ability of the male moth to detect a specific molecule in the presence of many other molecules in the air. what predictions does your hypothesis make? design an experiment to test one of these predictions.