Emily Myers (2009) Performed FMRI Brain Imaging on Subjects Who

Multiple Choice

Emily Myers (2009) performed fMRI brain imaging on subjects who were hearing and watching stimuli that produced the McGurk illusion. What aspects of the stimuli predicted selective brain activity?

A) Neural responses during the McGurk effect are no different than during trials without the effect.
B) Auditory neural regions represented the phonemic category rather than the acoustic gradient within it.
C) Auditory neural regions represented any kind of perceptible acoustic change.
D) Some neural regions responded selectively to an abstract sound category, whereas other neural regions responded selectively to acoustic details even within a category.