Reynolds et al.(1999)recorded from a single V4 neuron while a monkey was fixating on a visual display that contained both an effective stimulus and an ineffective stimulus.Neural activity when the monkey attended to the effective stimulus was
A)enhanced as if only the effective stimulus had been presented.
B)suppressed as if only the ineffective stimulus had been presented.
C)at an intermediate level due to the presence of both the effective and ineffective stimuli.

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The neural activity was enhanced as if only the effective stimulus had been presented, indicating that the neuron was selectively attending to the effective stimulus and ignoring the ineffective stimulus.

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