Question

Isabelle Gautier of Vanderbilt University believes that the FFA is not a brain region that evolved to be specialized for faces, and instead, that it evolved to afford humans with the ability to gain expertise in important domains of visual experience. She does research on avid bird watchers to support her claims. Which of the following results would lend some support to her hypothesis?

A. Bird watchers have cells in the hippocampus that code for individual bird species invariantly, explicitly, and sparsely.

B. Bird watchers have a harder time recognizing birds when shown upside-down.

C. Split brain patients can name a picture of a bird species even if the visual signal is only shown to the right hemisphere of the brain.

D. Some people who have never watched or studied birds can rapidly learn to recognize them after less than an hour of study in the lab.

Answer 1

solution. (A) Bird watchers have cells in the hippocampus that code for individual bird species invariantly explicitly, and sparsely option (A) is correct answer.