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Sometimes the visual information available to us about a stimulus is ambiguous because of differences in depth, lighting or shading cues. For example, patterns of shading can create the illusion of objects as protruding from a visual field. How do we make sense of the visual information to recognize ambiguous stimuli?
AVisual information about protruding objects is impossible to process
BVisual system relies on other people’s Knowledge of objects to identify ambiguous stimuli
CVisual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli
DBoth (a) and (c)
Correct answer
C. Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli
Explanation
The correct answer is Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli.