An Inhibition-Based Account of Prefrontal Cortex Function Would Suggest That

question 54

Multiple Choice

An inhibition-based account of prefrontal cortex function would suggest that monkeys with lateral prefrontal lesions perform poorly on the delayed-response task because they

• A)become distracted by irrelevant information and lose track of the correct target location.
• B)have poor source memory and cannot remember which location is the source for the food reward.
• C)perseverate in previous responses made on the preceding trials of the delayed-response task.
• D)cannot remember how to perform the steps in the delayed-response task in the correct order.

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