Sensory adaptation refers to
a. the ability of receptors to become less responsive to a stimulus of a given intensity.
b. a phenomenon through which a receptor specialized for one sensory modality evolves to respond to another sensory modality.
c. the ability of receptors to become more sensitive to a stimulus as a consequence of repeated exposure.
d. none of these.
A
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