During Your Lifetime,you Are Capable of Remembering Such Things as Telephone

question 111

Multiple Choice

During your lifetime,you are capable of remembering such things as telephone numbers,social security numbers,and song lyrics from many years ago.Your ability to perform these long-term memory tasks is possible because:

• A) the right and left hemispheres specialize in cerebral functions such as short-term and long-term recognition.
• B) repeated impulse conduction over a given neuronal circuit produces synaptic changes, which facilitates impulse transmission at the synapse.
• C) the spinothalamic pathway provides discrimination of short-term and long-term memories.
• D) extrapyramidal tracts consist of numerous relays of motor neurons that facilitate impulse transmission at the synapse.

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