Ablation refers to:

Ablation refers to:

• A. Disabling, destroying or removing selected brain tissue, followed by assessment of changes in behavior.
• B. The surgical connection of brain hemispheres.
• C. A technique for recording electrical brain activity.
• D. A method for enhancing neural plasticity.

Answer: (A)

Ablation involves deliberately disabling, destroying, or removing selected brain tissue and then observing the resulting changes in behavior. By creating a controlled lesion and seeing how behavior changes, researchers infer what that brain region contributes to—linking structure to function. The other described procedures are different: connecting hemispheres is a split-brain operation, recording electrical activity is an electrophysiological technique, and enhancing neural plasticity aims to promote changes in connections rather than remove tissue.

Ablation involves deliberately disabling, destroying, or removing selected brain tissue and then observing the resulting changes in behavior. By creating a controlled lesion and seeing how behavior changes, researchers infer what that brain region contributes to—linking structure to function. The other described procedures are different: connecting hemispheres is a split-brain operation, recording electrical activity is an electrophysiological technique, and enhancing neural plasticity aims to promote changes in connections rather than remove tissue.