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

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Karl Lashley's experiments showed that storage of maze memories was not restricted to single, specific regions of the cortex. He proposed the concept of the "equipotentiality" of different areas of the cortex, meaning that memories could be stored and retrieved from multiple cortical locations.

Karl Lashley Trained Rats to Solve a Maze and Then