Which of the Following Statements Is the Most Accurate with Regard

question 33

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 billion 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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