At this year's boat show, Rachel admired a restored vintage wooden motorboat rotating on a large platform. What enabled Rachel to understand that the object she saw was a boat despite the image on her retinas continually changing?
A. Perceptual constancy
B. Motion parallax
C. Binocular disparity
D. Feature detection
Answer: A
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