Tamber-Rosenau, Esterman, Chiu, and Yantis (2011) Conducted a Functional Magnetic

Multiple Choice

Tamber-Rosenau, Esterman, Chiu, and Yantis (2011) conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging study with human participants to examine how the executive attention and orienting attention networks allocate attention in a visual attention task.Participants watched an RSVP display, consisting of two streams of letters, one to the left of fixation and one to the right of fixation.They found that ______.

A) areas of the brain in the prefrontal lobe and in the parietal lobe were active during attentional shifts
B) areas of the brain in the prefrontal lobe and in the parietal lobe were both inactive during attentional shifts
C) the area of the brain in the parietal lobe was active during attention shifts, but the prefrontal lobe was inactive
D) the area of the brain in the prefrontal lobe was active during attention shifts, but the parietal lobe was inactive