Question

Kendra hears a terrible high-pitched sound in her psychology class. she knows that she perceived the sound because the high frequency sound waves stimulated hair cells at a certain location on her basilar membrane. in other words, kendra heard the sound due to __________ coding in her cochlea.

Answer 1

The correct answer is place coding. Place coding is defined as a frequency coding that is being determined through the activation of the organ, corti—from which it is at the base towards the apex of the cochlea in a gradation that has a higher frequency, transmitting frim the base and lower frequencies.