The Focus on Neuroscience: Vision, Experience, and the Brain Box

question 281

Multiple Choice

The Focus on Neuroscience: Vision, Experience, and the Brain box examines the visual experience of Mike May, who regained partial sight in one eye after 40 years of blindness. Which of the following statements about Mike's visual abilities is TRUE?

• A)Mike could easily identify complex three-dimensional objects, as long as they were not moving.
• B)Mike perceived a Necker cube as being three-dimensional, but only if it were not moving.
• C)Mike perceived a Necker cube as being three-dimensional, but only if it were moving.
• D)Mike was better at identifying faces than at identifying common objects.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is believed to contain the value of an unknown population parameter at a certain confidence level.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of data points in a population.

Sample Size

The number of observations or elements selected from a population for the purpose of statistical analysis.

Confidence Interval

A Confidence Interval is a range of values derived from sample statistics that is likely to contain the true population parameter at a given confidence level.