A Major Source of Evidence Against the Idea That Faces

question 60

Multiple Choice

A major source of evidence against the idea that faces are processed in a special brain region in humans is that the candidate region

• A) is used to process a variety of perceptual stimuli in nonhuman primates.
• B) is also involved in processing highly familiar places.
• C) is recruited when people have to make discriminations among highly familiar stimuli.
• D) varies significantly in location from person to person.

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Definitions:

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