The Fact That a Signal Travelling to the Brain Must

question 16

Multiple Choice

The fact that a signal travelling to the brain must cross many more synapses than a signal travelling to the spinal cord means that

• A) more information can be processed simultaneously in the brain than the spinal cord.
• B) the brain is capable of distributed processing while the spinal cord is not.
• C) it takes longer for the brain to respond to a painful stimulus than it does for the spinal cord to respond.
• D) the brain can process signals much faster than the spinal cord.

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