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javeds

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Your text describes the case of M.G.S. who underwent brain surgery as treatment for severe epilepsy. Testing of M.G.S. pre- and post-surgery revealed that the right visual cortex is involved in the
 
  a. size of the field of view.
  b. recognition of objects in the left side of space.
  c. ability to visually recognize objects.
  d. ability to draw objects from memory.

Question 2

Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex
 
  a. is an epiphenomenon.
  b. can be inferred using mental chronometry.
  c. supports the idea that the mechanism responsible for imagery involves propositional representations.
  d. plays a causal role in both perception and imagery.


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

a

Answer to Question 2

d


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