Moran and Desimone (1985) conducted a single-cell recording experiment with rhesus monkeys. Monkeys were trained to keep their eyes fixated on a central point and to then, as in the Posner paradigm, to attend to objects in one of two locations they were not directly looking at. They found that ______.
A. in monkeys, visual attention occurs in the monkey's lateral geniculate nucleus
B. monkeys did not respond faster to valid trials than to invalid trials
C. at a physiological level, attention does not feedback to earlier visual processing; attention is cognitive
D. at a physiological level, attention can affect the processing of visual information
Answer: D
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