Psychologist Karl Lashley found that rats retained at least a partial memory of how to navigate a maze after he
A) administered a drug to the rats that prevented LTP.
B) removed small pieces of the rats' cerebral cortex.
C) injected the rats with stress hormones.
D) deprived the rats of any opportunity to sleep.

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Karl Lashley's experiment involved removing small pieces of the rats' cerebral cortex, which is known to be involved in memory processing. The fact that the rats retained at least a partial memory of the maze suggests that memory is not localized in a single area of the brain, but is distributed throughout various regions.

Psychologist Karl Lashley Found That Rats Retained at Least a Partial