Jarrod's textbook has an interesting feature in it. It has pages of transparent pages, each of which has only a small picture on it. When he lays the pages down one after another, they give a diagram of the human brain, adding one structure at a time until the whole brain is represented. This is similar to the perceptual task of
A. monocular shadowing
B. bottom-up processing
C. binocular convergence
D. top-down processing
Answer: B
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