You Are Informed by a Friend That Whenever He Is

question 57

Multiple Choice

You are informed by a friend that whenever he is feeling sad,he smells his wife's perfume and reports feeling better instantaneously.Although there may be many explanations for this phenomenon,one possible physiological explanation is that:

• A)the primary projections of the olfactory system innervate the limbic system through the amygdala and the hippocampal formation.
• B)the primary projections of the olfactory system innervate the limbic system through the thalamus.
• C)the primary projections of the olfactory system innervate the somatosensory cortex through the amygdala and the hippocampal formation.
• D)the primary projections of the olfactory system innervate the somatosensory cortex through the thalamus.

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