Some People Have Sustained Brain Damage and Lost the Ability

question 22

Multiple Choice

Some people have sustained brain damage and lost the ability to identify color.Other people have 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)Perception of motion gets processing priority over perception of other attributes.
• 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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