<prompt> Pain and temperature are carried by:Anterior spinothalamic tractLateral spinothalamic tractDorsal columnNone  <response>: VENTROLATERAL SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTFibers from nociceptors and thermoreceptors synapse on neurons in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. The axons from these dorsal horn neurons cross the midline and ascend in the ventrolateral quadrant of the spinal cord, where they form the ventrolateral spinothalamic pathway. Fibers within this tract synapse in the VPL. 