According to the Discussion in Your Text, Why Did Karl

question 120

Multiple Choice

According to the discussion in your text, why did Karl Lashley fail to find evidence for the specific location of the engram?

• A)The brain and nervous system of sea snails was not complex enough for a localized memory to be formed.
• B)The complex maze-running behavior that Lashley studied involved changes in the cerebellum and he looked for brain changes in the cortex.
• C)The maze-running behavior that he studied involved a complex set of interrelated memories that existed in different brain areas.
• D)The eyeblink response that he studied in rabbits involved memories that are not localized but are distributed throughout the brain.

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