Multiple Choice
Afferent firing rates are faster in Type II than in Type I vestibular hair cells because the former has
A) smaller soma, so that there is less membrane through which the potential must travel.
B) a calyx, which surrounds most of the soma.
C) larger axons.
D) heavier myelination.
E) larger axons and heavier myelination.
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