The Study by O'Connor Et Al

question 27

Multiple Choice

The study by O'Connor et al. (2002) that used fMRI to investigate the effects of attention on the activity level of the left or right lateral geniculate nucleus, found that:

• A) as long as the direction of gaze did not change, the activity levels in the LGN did not change.
• B) the activity levels from left to right LGN did not change when the direction of gaze changed.
• C) even when the direction of gaze did not change, neural activity was greater in the LGN due to the direction of attention.
• D) as long as the direction of gaze changed, the activity levels from left to right LGN were not influenced by the direction of attention.

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