It has been several hours since you last ate. Walking past a bakery, you catch a whiff of freshly baked bread. What type of reflex is triggered, and what is the result
The long reflexes are activated by the smell of food and the sense of starvation due to hours of not feeding. It starts with a sensory neuron providing the medulla oblongata with a signal to stimulate cells in the abdomen to start secreting digestive juices in readiness for arriving food.
