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deesands

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In some areas of the brain, some ____ cells fire maximally only in response to very specific shapes (e.g., a hand or a face).
 
  a. simple
 b. complex
 c. subcortical
 d. hypercomplex

Question 2

According to Hubel and Wiesel, ____ cells receive input from neural cells projected from the thalamus and then fire in response to lines of particular orientations and positions in the receptive field. These cells differ from one another in that each cell responses only to a specific line orientation.
 
  a. simple
 b. complex
 c. subcortical
 d. hypercomplex


amandanbreshears

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

a


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