Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex
A. is an epiphenomenon.
B. can be inferred using mental chronometry.
C. supports the idea that the mechanism responsible for imagery involves propositional representations.
D. plays a causal role in both perception and imagery.
Answer: D
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