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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