When stepping backward, carmine feels a slight lump under his shoe and hears a high-pitched yowling noise. the process by which his brain determines that he has stepped on a cat's tail would best be described as

Perception

Explanation:

Perception is defined as the sensory signal that is received from the nervous system to obtain sensory information in the brain.Receptor of senses help in determining the sensory information that can be produced by hearing sounding, alertness or awareness due to some event or seeing something.

According to the question, Carmine's brain gave her the sensory information about stepping on cat through alerting sensory signal when she felt lump and heard noise.This describes about perception concept.

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