Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 17

Neurons do not make physical contact with one another or with other organs. Instead, there is an infinitely small space between a neuron's end bulbs and neighboring dendrites, cell bodies, or other organs. This space is called the (a) _____. When an axon's end bulbs secrete a neurotransmitter, it flows across this space and affects the (b) _____ on the neighboring membrane.