Psychology / Unit 2 Psych 0158 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The "Stronger Signal, Bigger Spike" Error
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The idea
It is an error to think a more intense stimulus produces a larger action potential in a single neuron.
In practice
A hard pinch and a light touch both produce full-size spikes; the hard pinch produces many more of them per second.
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