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Haya94

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Describe the difference between parvocellular and magnocellular neurons and pathways.
 
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Noam Chomsky and other advocates of the language acquisition device argue that humans ____.
 
  a. are incapable of learning language
 b. are born with language
 c. learn language through classical conditioning
 d. are no different in language capabilities than gorillas


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

The parvocellular neurons, with small cell bodies and small receptive fields, are mostly in or near the fovea. (Parvocellular means small celled, from the Latin root parv, meaning small..) The magnocellular neurons, with larger cell bodies and receptive fields, are distributed evenly
throughout the retina. (Magnocellular means large celled, from the Latin root magn, meaning large.. The same root appears in magnify.)

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Reply #2 on: Jun 22, 2018
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