A Part of the Brain That Is Devoted to Both

question 164

Multiple Choice

A part of the brain that is devoted to both synthesizing and assigning meaning to information is:

• A) an association area.
• B) the somatosensory cortex.
• C) the reticular activating system.
• D) Broca's area.

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