Recent studies of the function of primary visual cortex neurons using natural visual scenes rather than simple artificial stimuli have discovered that
A) some neurons respond only to trees.
B) some neurons respond only to color.
C) visual neurons are plastic: As a background scene changes, the way that a neuron responds to elements in its receptive field changes.
D) all of the above
E) both A and B

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Recent studies have shown that visual neurons in the primary visual cortex exhibit plasticity, meaning that their response to specific elements in their receptive field can change as the background context changes. This means that rather than being tuned to specific features such as trees or color, neurons are better understood as analyzing visual scenes in their entirety.

Recent Studies of the Function of Primary Visual Cortex Neurons