Selective attention
A) improves the perception of stimuli that are its focus.
B) has no effect on perception.
C) seems to depend totally on thalamic mechanisms.
D) seems to depend totally on changes in receptors.
E) blocks out, just slightly, the perception of those stimuli that are its focus.
Answer: A
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