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Biased Competition Is a Mechanism That Allows for Filtering Out

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Biased competition is a mechanism that allows for filtering out distracting information.One important implication of this phenomenon is which of the following?


A) Distracting information is only filtered out if attention is allocated outside a cell's receptive field
B) Distracting information increases activation of a cell within its receptive field irrespective of attention
C) Attention to both distracting and task-relevant information increases a cell's firing within the receptive field
D) Attention can reduce the suppressive effects of distracting information within a cell's receptive field

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