During his adventures around the galaxy, Arthur Dent relies on an earpiece that deciphers all the strange alien languages he hears. Similarly, receptors in the ear encode sound waves into neural activity that the brain can understand, a process called ____.?
a. ?transduction
b. ?synthesis
c. ?transcription
d. ?accommodation
ANSWER:
a
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