Some People Have Sustained Brain Damage and Lost the Ability

question 5

Multiple Choice

Some people have sustained brain damage and lost the ability to identify color. Other people sustained damage to a different area of the brain and lost the ability to detect motion. What does this indicate about our visual system?

• A) Identifying color is more important than identifying motion.
• B) Neither color nor motion detection is critical to survival, if it can be erased through brain damage.
• C) We have specialized areas for processing different kinds of visual information.
• D) The brain is unable to simultaneously process information in multiple ways.

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