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The thalamus acts as a relay station for all senses except smell. How does the location of the thalamus within the brain help with this function?.

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I'm not so sure but this is what our teacher told us.

The thalamus sorts the important information from the insignificant before sending information to the cerebral cortex of the brain.

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