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expeople1 [14]
3 years ago
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Katie has grown up sleeping with a fan running in her room since she was an infant. This provides white noise to drown out the t

elevision programs being watched by other family members who were still awake. In an effort to save electricity, her mother has started coming into her room and turning her fan off after she thinks Katie is asleep. However, each time Katie wakes up and asks for the fan to be turned back on. Katie is selectively attending to certain kinds of information in her surroundings, which has been linked to the ________ part of the brain.
a) reticular formation
b) pons
c) cerebellum
d) medulla
Social Studies
1 answer:
kondaur [170]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

The correct answer is a) reticular formation.

Katie is selectively attending to certain kinds of information in her surroundings, which has been linked to the reticular formation part of the brain.

Explanation:

The recticular formation is the part of the brain that extends through the central core of the medulla oblongata and stops in the midbrain, it is involved in actions such as sleeping, awakening cycle it also helps in filtering incoming stimuli by discarding irrelevant ones.

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