Multiple Choice
The quality of a sensory stimulus is generally encoded by
A) population of neurons firing and their frequency of firing
B) conne ctivity of sensory neurons in the spinal cord
C) connectivity of sensory fibers in the central nervous system
D) size of the action potentials
E) the receptive field of sensory neurons
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