Many researchers argue that face perception is "special"; we process faces in a different way than we process other visual stimuli. According to this perspective,

a. we process the color of human faces before we process their shape.
b. unlike other objects, information about faces does not pass through the primary visual cortex.
c. we recognize faces in terms of their entire shape, rather than in terms of their isolated features.
d. because faces are so complex, we take a long time to recognize that an object is a face; in contrast, we recognize simpler objects much more quickly.


Ans: c

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