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The thousands of mechanoreceptors distributed along the basilar membrane need not be tuned to different frequencies, as in color vision, where each receptor type responds most strongly in a particular wavelength range.
Fifty-six intercostal muscle mechanoreceptors were localized.
With the exception of three Golgi tendon organs, all of the mechanoreceptors increased their frequency of discharge with increased magnitudes of intercostal space displacement.
In the present study, intercostal muscle mechanoreceptors were characterized as muscle spindles (primary or secondary) or Golgi tendon organs using criteria based primarily on physiological response patterns (see Methods).
It is the mechanoreceptors' position in the cochlea that determines which sound frequency will maximally stimulate them [10,12].