As you listen to a new CD, you experience the music as a unified whole and not as separate musical notes. This auditory experience could best be used to illustrate:
A) the Gestalt view of perception.
B) the Young-Helmholtz theory.
C) opponent-processing.
D) the existence of special feature-detector cells.

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The Gestalt view of perception emphasizes that we experience stimuli as organized wholes that are more than just a collection of individual parts. This auditory experience of perceiving music as a unified whole, rather than simply a collection of individual notes, is an example of this concept.

As You Listen to a New CD, You Experience the Music