Which of the following students provides the most accurate summary of the neuroscience research on attention?
a. Lucy: "One kind of attention task activates the frontal lobe, and a different kind of attention activates the parietal lobe."
b. Nipon: "The orienting attention network is activated when people work on the Stroop task."
c. Daniel: "The executive attention network is activated when people search for a specific target."
d. Elena: "At present, the neuroscience research shows contradictory findings, so that it is too early to draw any conclusions about this topic."
Ans: a
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