Astimulus is applied to the back of your hand, which results in the activation of two sensory neurons. the stimulus is applied a second time but this time it activates five sensory receptors because this new stimulus is stronger. the recruitment of sensory neurons is known as

The recruitment of sensory neurons is known as population coding. Population coding is a method used to represent stimuli by applying the joint activities of a number of neurons. Each sensory neuron has a distribution of responses above some set of inputs, and the responses of many neurons may be added to ascertain some value about the inputs.