Karl Lashley trained rats to solve a maze and then removed pieces of their cortexes.He observed that storage of their maze memory was
A) restricted to their right cerebral hemisphere.
B) restricted to their left and right frontal lobes.
C) restricted to their left and right temporal lobes.
D) not restricted to a single specific region of the cortex.

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Karl Lashley's experiments showed that maze memory was not restricted to a single specific region of the cortex, but rather was distributed throughout the brain. This is consistent with the concept of the distributed representation of memory.

Karl Lashley Trained Rats to Solve a Maze and Then