Some stroke victims lose the capacity to perceive motion but retain the capacity to perceive shapes and colors.Others lose the capacity to perceive colors but retain the capacity to perceive movement and form.These peculiar visual disabilities best illustrate our normal capacity for
A) perceptual adaptation.
B) parallel processing.
C) feature detection.
D) accommodation.

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Parallel processing refers to the brain's ability to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality, such as motion, shape, and color, in different visual pathways. The described visual disabilities suggest that these capacities are processed in parallel, as damage to one pathway can impair the perception of motion or color without affecting the other capabilities.

Some Stroke Victims Lose the Capacity to Perceive Motion but Retain