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.They found that neural activity when the monkey attended to the effective stimulus was enhanced as if only the effective stimulus had been presented.This finding is
A)consistent with feature integration theory.
B)consistent with the filter theory of attention.
C)consistent with biased competition theory.

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The finding of enhanced neural activity when attending to the effective stimulus, as if only that stimulus was present, is consistent with biased competition theory. This theory suggests that attention acts as a biasing mechanism that enhances the neural representation of the attended item while suppressing the representation of competing items. In this case, the effective stimulus was able to capture the attention of the monkey, resulting in its enhanced neural representation.

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