In their experiments on the brain and perceptual features, Blakemore, Cooper, Grobstein, and Chow found that
a. the kittens raised in the vertically-striped rooms ran into chair legs in the normal environment.
b. the kittens raised in the horizontally-striped rooms had difficulty jumping onto a chair in the normal environment.
c. there was an actual decrease in brain cells tuned to the missing features.
d. all of these findings were true.
ANSWER: c
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