Read the passage below and answer the question that follows.A professor at the college explained to his students that this theory of hearing is similar to piano strings. If you sound a note with a tuning fork near a piano, the piano string tuned to that note will vibrate. Of which theory of hearing was the above an example?

The example describes different pitches activating different locations: the piano string tuned to the tuning fork’s note vibrates. In hearing, place theory says pitch is identified by the location of greatest vibration along the cochlea. Therefore, the example is the place theory of hearing.

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