You are standing on a sidewalk and a bus drives past you with a billboard on the side. With seemingly no effort, your visual system is able to simultaneously process information about the words on the billboard, the colour and speed of the bus, and how far away from you the bus is. This simultaneous analyzing of information related to different visual characteristics is called
A)parallel processing
B)hierarchical processing
C)transduction
D)habituation

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Parallel processing is the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality. This is essential for tasks such as reading a billboard while noticing the color and speed of a bus, as it allows for the processing of multiple aspects of a visual scene at the same time.

You Are Standing on a Sidewalk and a Bus Drives