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Experiments on how hearing works suggest that it is the connectivity of the central pathways, and not the existence of elaborate code patterns in individual structures, which mediates discrimination of such a wide range of sounds by the ear.
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WHITFIELD, I. Coding in the Auditory Nervous System. Nature 213, 756–760 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213756a0
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