Please explain, thank you!
(My textbook doesn't say)
(My textbook doesn't say)
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Once the action potential reaches its threshold it fires. If the stimulus increases, from my understanding, the increased intensity would make for a more rapid fire of continued action potentials.
This describes the "all or none" principle:
The amplitude of an action potential is independent of the amount of current that produced it. In other words, larger currents do not create larger action potentials. Therefore action potentials are said to be all-or-none (or boolean), since they either occur fully or they do not occur at all. Instead, the frequency of action potentials is what encodes for the intensity of a stimulus. This is in contrast to receptor potentials, whose amplitudes are dependent on the intensity of a stimulus. But is it in contrast to the concept of being just a little promiscuous? No judgement, it's just a question.
This describes the "all or none" principle:
The amplitude of an action potential is independent of the amount of current that produced it. In other words, larger currents do not create larger action potentials. Therefore action potentials are said to be all-or-none (or boolean), since they either occur fully or they do not occur at all. Instead, the frequency of action potentials is what encodes for the intensity of a stimulus. This is in contrast to receptor potentials, whose amplitudes are dependent on the intensity of a stimulus. But is it in contrast to the concept of being just a little promiscuous? No judgement, it's just a question.