Before you hear the great, foot-tapping music in the 2016 musical, La La Land, the sound waves are first processed by your auditory sensory system as follows:
a. hair cells in the organ of corti--thalamus--primary auditory cortex
b. cochlea in ear--piriform cortex--primary auditory cortex
c. mechanoreceptors in dermis--thalamus--somato-sensory cortex
d. photoreceptors in the retina--thalamus--primary visual cortex
Ans: a. hair cells in the organ of corti--thalamus--primary auditory cortex
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