A frog's eyes are highly sensitive to small, dark, moving spots
Since the frog's eyes are attuned to this specific stimuli, the frog's eyes act as
a. feature detectors.
b. sensory amplifiers.
c. perceptual transducers.
d. phosphenes.
ANSWER: a
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