Top-down mechanisms suggest that
A. upright stimuli are processed faster than inverted stimuli.
B. faces are processed faster than other body parts or inanimate objects.
C. processing can be driven by knowledge and expectations.
D. incoming information about a stimulus activates feature detectors.
Ans: C. processing can be driven by knowledge and expectations.
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