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In November 1925 Adrian and Zotterman managed for the first time to record electrical impulses set up in a single fiber originating in a mechanoreceptive end-organ and thereby provide direct evidence for the basic principle that the conduction in sensory nerves is an all-or-none event. They found, furthermore, in a subsequent study that the mechanoreceptors could be dichotomized into rapidly and slowly adapting categories on the basis of the adaptive properties (Adrian and Zotterman, 1926).
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Franzén, O., Thompson, F., Whitsel, B., Young, M. (1984). Peripheral Coding Mechanisms of Touch Velocity. In: von Euler, C., Franzén, O., Lindblom, U., Ottoson, D. (eds) Somatosensory Mechanisms. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07292-7_14
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