As you watch your favorite team play football on a brisk Sunday afternoon,you start thinking back to your recent lecture on neuropsychology.You watch as the quarterback sends a blistering pass to the wide receiver,who takes the ball and heads upfield with it.If you were to relate this scene to a neuron's activities,which football player would represent the postsynaptic neuron?

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The receiver represents the postsynaptic neuron because, in the context of neural communication, the postsynaptic neuron receives signals (like the wide receiver catching the ball) from the presynaptic neuron (similar to the quarterback throwing the ball).

As You Watch Your Favorite Team Play Football on a Brisk