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The All-or-None Law
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The all-or-none law states that a neuron either fires at full strength or does not fire at all.
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A barely-suprathreshold input and a very strong input produce action potentials of identical size.
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Intensity is coded by how often neurons fire and how many of them fire, never by how hard one fires.