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 three different neurons to fire, with neuron 7 responding the least and neuron 9 responding the most. Your results support __________ coding.
A) specificity
B) distributed
C) sparse
D) divergence

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Sparse coding is when a small number of neurons are involved in representing a particular stimulus, with each neuron responding to different aspects of the stimulus. In this case, different faces cause different sets of neurons to fire, with varying levels of response, which aligns with sparse coding.

When Conducting an Experiment on How Stimuli Are Represented by the Firing