An informant brings a tip to a police department about suspicious activity at the docks.After detectives meet and process this information,they decide that the best course of action is to send undercover officers to the scene.If the police department were a neural network,the undercover officers would be functioning as:
A)sensory neurons.
B)motor neurons.
C)dendrites.
D)interneurons.

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Motor neurons carry out the response or action decided upon after processing information, similar to how undercover officers act on the decision made by the detectives (who represent the processing unit in this analogy). Sensory neurons would be analogous to the informant bringing in information, dendrites receive signals in a neuron (not applicable in this analogy), and interneurons would represent the connections and processing within the neural network (the detectives' meeting and decision-making process).

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