Studies by Johansson in which subjects could only see the small lights attached to several points on a person's limbs but could not see the person's shape, provided evidence of a phenomenon know as
A) spatial location.
B) extrastriate body perception.
C) form from motion.
D) figure-ground contrast.
E) illusory contours.

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Johansson's studies, where subjects could perceive human motion from lights attached to a person's limbs without seeing the person's body, demonstrated the phenomenon of "form from motion," showing that our visual system can interpret motion cues to recognize forms.

Studies by Johansson in Which Subjects Could Only See the Small