Based on your knowledge of sensory systems, you would predict that the reason we are better at localizing objects on our fingertips than on our calf muscles is because

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The fine touch neurons coming from the fingertips have much smaller receptive fields

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More of the brain is devoted to processing body areas important in keeping us upright like the calf muscles.

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There are more fine touch receptors in the fingertips than in the calves AND The fine touch neurons coming from the fingertips have much smaller receptive fields.

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The fine touch receptors in the fingertips have much larger receptive fields

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There are more fine touch receptors in the fingertips than in the calves.

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