The Capacity of Circuits Involving the VlPOA and the Locus

question 9

Multiple Choice

The capacity of circuits involving the vlPOA and the locus coeruleus, raphe nuclei, and dorsal pons to show mutual inhibition may result in

• A) the transitions between eating and drinking in the rat.
• B) alternating motor search behaviors in a maze.
• C) shifts of attention.
• D) stepping behavior.
• E) the alternation between sleep and waking.

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Definitions:

Sample Means

The average of values obtained from a sample, which is a subset of a larger population.

Bootstrap

A statistical method that resamples a single dataset to create many simulated samples, used for estimating the distribution of a statistic.

Standard Error

A statistical term that measures the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population using standard deviation.

Sample Correlation

A measure that indicates the extent to which two variables change together in a sample dataset.