Simultaneous weak stimuli at different locations produce a greater reflexive response than one of the stimuli by itself. What is this phenomenon called?
a. Sherrington's law
b. temporal summation
c. spatial summation
d. the all-or-none law
c
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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