Question

When conducting an experiment on how stimuli are represented by the firing of neurons, you notice that neurons respond differently to different faces. For example, Arthur's face causes three neurons to fire, with neuron 1 responding the most and neuron 3 responding the least. Roger's face causes the same three neurons to fire, with neuron 1 responding the least and neuron 3 responding the most. Your results support __________ coding.

Answer 1

Answer:

distributed

Explanation:

There are two encodings: distributed and specific. Distributed coding is that by which similar solutions in psychophysical terms have a similar trigger pattern.

In distributed coding, the perception of an object implies the activation of a large number of neurons in the IT cortex.