By stimulating taste pathways in the brains of rats who were not exposed to sucrose but using firing patterns of neurons that were recorded from rats who were drinking a sucrose solution, researchers determined that ______.
A. neural firing patterns are random
B. neural firing patterns can encode visual but not taste stimuli
C. neural firing patterns can encode taste stimuli
D. neurons do not synchronize their firing rates
Answer: C
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A. directly observable B. observable actions C. not directly observable D. only behaviors performed by human beings
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a. Economic well-being b. Religious freedom c. Procreative health d. Sexual health
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a. fixed-ratio schedule b. variable-ratio schedule c. fixed-interval schedule d. variable-interval schedule
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a) we have one canal to sense motion in each of the three planes. b) we can see the world in three dimensions. c) we can detect sound locations in the three-dimensional world. d) we have an extra if one is broken.