If you were designing an artificial device to mimic a nerve involved in perceiving pressure,what kind of potential would the device need to mimic?

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Graded potentials are used to transmit information about the strength of a stimulus. In the context of pressure perception, the intensity of the pressure is translated into the magnitude of the graded potential, which is then transmitted to the brain. Threshold potential and action potential are used to convey different kinds of information and would not be directly applicable to designing a nerve mimicking device for pressure perception.

If You Were Designing an Artificial Device to Mimic a Nerve