In Addition to Describing Movement Detection in Terms of the Environment

question 18

Multiple Choice

 In addition to describing movement detection in terms of the environment, researchers have proposed different ways to detect movement from a physiological perspective. The Reichardt detector is one solution. Which of the following is the greatest weakness of the Reichardt detector

• A) It only explains motion detection for images that cross the receptors.
• B) It only explains how eye movements can be accounted for in motion detection.
• C) It only is able to detect lateral movement of stimuli.
• D) It operates using excitatory and inhibitory signals.

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Definitions:

Information Processing Theory

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