The Superior Olivary Nucleus

question 91

Multiple Choice

The superior olivary nucleus

• A) generates the endocochlear potential.
• B) receives impulses from the vestibular nerve.
• C) helps localize high-pitched tones near the apex of the basilar membrane.
• D) sends efferent impulses that inhibit all hair cells not vibrating maximally.
• E) stimulates additional hair cells.

Assess how pattern recognition is fundamental to human reasoning and its relationship to comparative reasoning.

Distinguish between the use of comparative reasoning for generating ideas and its limitations in proving those ideas.

Describe how comparative reasoning can be both persuasive and risky.

Understand the economic growth and development of British colonies in the eighteenth century.

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