In Newsome and Paré's (1988) Experiment, 100% Condition, All the Dots

question 59

Multiple Choice

In Newsome and Paré's (1988) experiment, 100% condition, all the dots were moving in the same condition.In the 50% condition, half the dots were moving in a consistent direction.In the 20% condition, only one fifth of the dots were moving in a consistent direction.They found that ______.

• A)MT neurons could detect motion only in the 100% condition
• B)MT neurons integrate across any number of local detectors to infer the general pattern of motion in the display
• C)MT neurons actually responded more strongly to the 20% condition than they did to the 100% condition
• D)because the MT neurons had already been lesioned, Newsome and Paré could not make a conclusion about MT function

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