The Focus on Neuroscience Feature "Assembling Memories: Echoes and Reflections

Multiple Choice

The Focus on Neuroscience feature "Assembling Memories: Echoes and Reflections of Perception" describes a study in which participants first memorized labels for common objects, such as "dog," that were paired with either a picture or a sound, and then were later asked to retrieve the memory. What was the overall conclusion of the study?

A) Retrieving the memory of a sensory stimulus activates a subset of the same brain areas that were involved in initially perceiving the sensory stimulus.
B) The memory trace for memories associated with pictures is more permanent than the memory trace for memories associated with sounds.
C) Visual memories are localized, but auditory memories are distributed.
D) Remembering a sensory stimulus involves different brain regions than perceiving a sensory stimulus.