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Problem: We might expect some neurons to have strong responses to any stimulus and others to have consistently weak responses. There would then be a strong relationship between tone response and call response.

Required:

From the scatterplot of monkey call response against pure-tone response in Figure 7.6 what would you estimate the correlation r to be?

(i) -0.6

(ii) -0.1

(iii) 0.1

(iv) 0.6

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