size principle

the principle that the order of recruitment of motor neurons serving a particular muscle is related to their size: To produce muscle responses of increasing strength, small, low-threshold neurons are recruited first, and large, high-threshold neurons are recruited last.

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November 23rd 2024

successive reproduction

see repeated reproduction.