Editing Thermoception (section)

==Heat transfer==
Thermoception depends on the [[heat transfer|transfer of heat]] from the environment to the thermoreceptor. The transfer may be [[thermal conduction|conductive]], [[Convection (heat transfer)|convective]] or [[thermal radiation|radiative]], but the method is irrelevant to the thermoceptor, which simply detects its own temperature, not that of the environment. The temperature of a thermoreceptor is the result of an [[First law of thermodynamics|energy balance]] between the heat flux from the environment and the heat dissipation to the rest of the body (or vice versa for cold detection). For example, a low-temperature metal, with high [[thermal conductivity]] may feel warmer than a high-temperature ceramic, with low thermal conductivity, because touching the metal results in a higher temperature of the thermoreceptor itself.