Posner and Rothbart propose that the executive attention network is active when people need to inhibit an automatic response. On this kind of attention task, the portion of the brain that would be most active is

a. the parietal lobe.
b. the temporal lobe.
c. the occipital lobe.
d. the frontal lobe.


Ans: d

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