For college football teams, scholarships are currency. Thereâs a clear relationship between a teamâs recruiting success and its on-field performance, and in the wake of the sanctions, Miami was unable to recruit as effectively as it had during the early 1990s.2.
Distal Stimulus: A distant stimulus, as opposed to the proximal, or near, stimulus. An object, such as a tree, which reflects light waves, is a distal stimulus with respect to the eye. Proximal Stimulus: A near stimulus that acts directly on an aspect of the nervous system.
Figure 1. Frequency coding in the nervous system: Threshold stimulus. 1  If a threshold stimulus is applied to a neuron and maintained (top, red trace), action potentials occur at a maximum frequency that is limited by the sum of the absolute and relative refractory periods (bottom, blue trace).