Why Might the Brain Have Dedicated Regions Devoted to Recognizing

question 40

Multiple Choice

Why might the brain have dedicated regions devoted to recognizing faces or places, but not for making other types of distinctions such as object discrepancies?

• A)Faces and places are most prevalent in our environment, rather than objects.
• B)Objects require numerous neural regions to sum various object parts.
• C)Recognizing faces and remembering places serves a superior evolutionary advantage.
• D)There are too many object categories for the brain to dedicate distinct object regions.

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