Which of the Following Statements Is the Most Accurate with Regard

question 24

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is the most accurate with regard to specificity coding?

• A)It is probably accurate,which explains why the human nervous system contains over one hundred quadrillion neurons.
• B)Research has found that specificity encoding does occur for lower animals,such as dogs and cats,but has not found this phenomenon to exist in human beings.
• C)It is unlikely to be correct because there are too many stimuli in the world to have a separate neuron for each.
• D)Specificity coding is one of the areas that is only theoretical and not applied,and thus there is no way to know if it truly exists in human beings.

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