Troy is a classical music enthusiast and enjoys listening to his local orchestra. One night while at the amphitheater listening to Beethoven's 5^th Symphony, he realizes that he can hear a muffled sound but he cannot recognize the melody. Which part of his auditory pathway is most likely damaged? A) auditory association area B) cochlea C) inferior colliculus D) primary auditory cortex E) Wernicke's area

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The auditory association area is responsible for processing and recognizing the sounds we hear, including music and speech. If Troy can hear sounds but cannot recognize the melody, it suggests that the initial auditory processing (hearing the sound) is intact, but the higher-level processing (recognizing the melody) is impaired, indicating a problem in the auditory association area.

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