Recent studies of the function of primary visual cortex neurons using natural visual scenes rather than simple artificial stimuli have discovered that
A) some neurons respond only to trees.
B) some neurons respond only to color.
C) visual neurons are plastic: As a background scene changes, the way that a neuron responds to elements in its receptive field changes.
D) all of the above
E) both A and B
Answer: C
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