C-Fibers

question 29

Multiple Choice

C-fibers

• A)are small,myelinated fibers that transmit sharp pain.
• B)strongly influence the affective and motivational elements of pain.
• C)respond to mechanical or thermal pain,but not to polymodal pain.
• D)typically transmit pain signals more rapidly than A-delta fibers.

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Prior Probabilities

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The probabilities that quantify the plausibility of different parameter values for a statistical model given the observed data.