How do the synapses responsible for taste and smell differ from those for vision and hearing?

a. The synapses for taste and smell have effects that are expressed more widely in the brain.
b. The synapses for taste and smell have inhibitory effects; vision and taste are excitatory.
c. The synapses for taste and smell react more slowly and their effects last longer

d. The synapses for taste and smell occur only in the spinal cord and not in the brain.


c

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