In which areas of the body would you expect to find the most

Solution

The merkel disks are sensory receptors found in deeper layers of skin and they respond to pressure. The Meissner\'s corpuscles are mechanoreceptors which respond to touch. Both of them are found in skin areas that are very sensitive to pressure and touch. Smaller and denser the receptive field, greater is the capacity to process the stimulus. Since fingertips are smaller in area and sensitive too, the merkel disks and meissner\'s corpuscles are found to be clustered in the skin beneath the fingertips.