Chapter 4

What is kinesthesia?

What are the three middle-ear ossicles, and what is their function?

Neurons can fire at most \(1 \mathrm{kHz}\), or at a rate of \(1 \mathrm{~ms}\) between action potentials. Nyquist sampling requires two samples per highest- frequency wave period, which means that such a neuronal firing rate can only encode up to \(500 \mathrm{~Hz}\). How is it that humans can discern components beyond 20 times that amount \((10 \mathrm{kHz}) ?\)

Why is it so amazing that we must "cut corners" in computational processing to get our electronic models to simulate real-time behavior of biological sensory systems?