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cookcarl

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When a vertebrate animal contracts the flexor muscles of a leg, it relaxes the extensor muscles of the same leg. Sherrington considered this evidence for the existence of ____.
 
  a. spatial summation
 b. temporal summation
 c. inhibitory messages
 d. the delay in transmission at synapses

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Electrical stimulation of a rat's lateral hypothalamus would most likely result in ____.
 
  a. an increase in food seeking behaviors
 b. a decrease in food seeking behaviors
 c. a decrease in chewing and other reflexes associated with eating
 d. damage to dopamine-containing axons passing through it


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s.meritte

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

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cookcarl

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
:D TYSM

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