Moran and Desimone (1985) Conducted a Single-Cell Recording Experiment with Rhesus

question 60

Multiple Choice

Moran and Desimone (1985) conducted a single-cell recording experiment with rhesus monkeys.Monkeys were trained to keep their eyes fixated on a central point and to then, as in the Posner paradigm, to attend to objects in one of two locations they were not directly looking at.They found that ______.

• A)in monkeys, visual attention occurs in the monkey's lateral geniculate nucleus
• B)monkeys did not respond faster to valid trials than to invalid trials
• C)at a physiological level, attention does not feedback to earlier visual processing; attention is cognitive
• D)at a physiological level, attention can affect the processing of visual information

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