Researchers Use Electric Current to Destroy Brain Area a and Conclude

question 44

Multiple Choice

Researchers use electric current to destroy Brain Area A and conclude that the absence of a certain behavior is due to Brain Area A. However, Brain Area A is not actually involved; instead, a brain area that was passed through was involved in the circuit of interest. How could the researchers control for this erroneous finding?

• A) sham lesions
• B) conduct the experiment again on another group of animals
• C) use a different path to administer the electric current
• D) lesion other areas around the site of the previous lesion study
• E) use humans instead

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