Biased Competition Is a Mechanism That Allows for Filtering Out

question 4

Multiple Choice

Biased competition is a mechanism that allows for filtering out distracting information.One important implication of this phenomenon is which of the following?

• A)Distracting information is only filtered out if attention is allocated outside a cell's receptive field
• B)Distracting information increases activation of a cell within its receptive field irrespective of attention
• C)Attention to both distracting and task-relevant information increases a cell's firing within the receptive field
• D)Attention can reduce the suppressive effects of distracting information within a cell's receptive field

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Definitions:

Relative Ratio

A term used to describe the proportional relationship between quantities or concentrations of substances.

Peak

A term often used in spectroscopy and chromatography to describe the highest point in a graph representing the presence or concentration of a substance.

Splitting

A phenomenon observed in NMR spectroscopy where a signal is divided into multiple smaller peaks due to interactions between nuclear spins, indicating the presence of nearby non-equivalent hydrogen atoms.

Signals

Forms of communication or data transmission, often representing information being transferred from one place to another.