Old Fashioned Telephone Systems Used to Rely on Operators to Take

question 34

Multiple Choice

Old fashioned telephone systems used to rely on operators to take incoming calls and connect them to the appropriate persons they were intended for. Which structure of the brain performs a similar function?

• A) hypothalamus
• B) thalamus
• C) hippocampus
• D) basal ganglia

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