After training rats to successfully navigate a maze, Karl Lashley sought to determine the precise spot in the brain where the learning occurred by:

A) surgically removing tiny sections of the brain and then retesting the rats.
B) giving the rats experimental drugs that target specific brain areas and then retesting the rats.
C) studying differences in dendritic density in various brain regions under a microscope after the rats' death.
D) studying the rats running the maze while connected to a recorder that measured brain electrical activity.


A) surgically removing tiny sections of the brain and then retesting the rats.

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