What was the critical finding of Smith,Brown,Toman,and Goodman's (1947)study of language that employed the drug curare to temporarily paralyze the participant?
A) Humans have an innate ability to produce language.
B) Chimpanzees are able to process human language when the higher centers of their brains are unfettered by motor sequences.
C) The left hemispheres of birds become active when human voices are presented.
D) For humans,thinking is not tied to muscle activity.

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Smith et al.'s study demonstrated that curare, which temporarily paralyzes muscles, did not impair participants' ability to think or produce language. This suggests that thinking is not tied to muscle activity.

What Was the Critical Finding of Smith,Brown,Toman,and Goodman's (1947)study of Language