Complete each sentence to assess your knowledge of primary sensory coding recrui

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Complete each sentence to assess your knowledge of primary sensory coding recruitment Converting stimulus energy into a signal that conveys the relevant sensory information, such as stimulus type, intensity, location, and adaptation, to the central nervous system is termed coding Stimulus duration coding Perception of the stimulus location depends on the size of the receptive field covered by a single sensory unit and on the overlap of nearby receptive fields slowly adapting receptors Stimulus intensity A single afferent neuron with all its receptor endings makes up a sensory unit. rapidly adapting receptors lateral inhibition can be coded for by the onset and/or offset of a stimulus, or by long as a stimulus is ongoing which fire for a brief period at which fire repeatedly as stimulus location All receptors of a given sensory unit respond to the same type of stimulus, also known as the stimulus modality stimulus modality acuity The phenomenon of acuity is an important means by which ascending pathways increase sensory precision, or with which we can locate a stimulus. receptive field Stimulus intensity is coded by the rate of firing of individual sensory units and by the number of sensory units activated in a process called recruitment. sensory unit lateral inhibition

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Lateral inhibition can be coded for by slowly adapting receptors, which fire for a brief period at the onset and or offset of a stimulus or by rapidly adapting receptors, which fire repeatedly as long as a stimulus is ongoing.

The phenomenon of acuity is an important means by which ascending pathways increase sensory precision or stimulus duration, with which we can locate a stimulus.

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