Some People Have Sustained Brain Damage and Lost the Ability

Multiple Choice

Some people have sustained brain damage and lost the ability to identify color. Other people sustained damage to a different area of the brain and lost the ability to detect motion. What does this indicate about our visual system?

A) Identifying color is more important than identifying motion.
B) Neither color nor motion detection is critical to survival, if it can be erased through brain damage.
C) We have specialized areas for processing different kinds of visual information.
D) The brain is unable to simultaneously process information in multiple ways.