During his adventures around the galaxy, Arthur Dent relied on an earpiece that deciphered all the strange alien languages he heard. 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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