Scientists have discovered correlations between activity in parts of the human brain and specific components of long-term memory through the observation of ____
a. ?patients with brain damage and brain imaging studies in healthy participants
b. ?Taxicab drivers in the cities of London, Chicago, and New York
c. ?infants who were born between 2 and 12 months premature
d. ?pigeons and rats, both of whom were born with only half of their cerebral cortex
ANSWER:
a
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