A frog's eyes are highly sensitive to small, dark, moving spots.Since the frog's eyes are attuned to this specific stimuli, the frog's eyes act as
A) feature detectors.
B) sensory amplifiers.
C) perceptual transducers.
D) phosphenes.

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A feature detector is a type of neuron in the brain that specifically responds to a particular aspect of a sensory stimulus. In the case of the frog's eyes, they are highly attuned to small, dark, moving spots, which suggests that the cells in the frog's visual system are acting as feature detectors.

A Frog's Eyes Are Highly Sensitive to Small, Dark, Moving