Knudsen and Brainard (1991)raised barn owls with vision-displacing prisms over their eyes.This led to the ontogenetic development of
A) a corresponding shift in the auditory topographic map in the tectum.
B) a discrepancy between where a stimulus was heard to be and where it was seen to be.
C) the degeneration of the tectum.
D) the degeneration of the visual tectum.
E) the degeneration of the auditory cortex.

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The study by Knudsen and Brainard (1991) found that raising barn owls with vision-displacing prisms over their eyes resulted in a corresponding shift in the auditory topographic map in the tectum. This suggests that the development of the auditory map is influenced by visual cues during ontogeny.

Knudsen and Brainard (1991)raised Barn Owls with Vision-Displacing Prisms Over