If You Were to Use a Brain Imaging Device to Observe

question 133

Multiple Choice

If you were to use a brain imaging device to observe the brain activity of children as they were drawing and putting puzzles together, you would expect to see the most neural activity in which region of the brain?

• A) in the right hemisphere
• B) in the left hemisphere
• C) in both left and right hemispheres, in roughly equal amounts
• D) in neither the left nor right hemisphere, since visual tasks are coordinated by the cerebellum

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