The author implies that visual synesthesia can occur because certain neurons respond to the co-occurrence of a particular color and shape . A plausible hypothesis is that such cells evolved because they increased processing speed in the identification of_______.
A) dangerous predators on the basis of incomplete visual information
B) group member by either appearance or vocalisation
C) appropriate foods by any combination of characteristics.
D) environmental forms and patterns associated with the home territory.
Answer:
A) dangerous predators on the basis of incomplete visual information
Explanation:
Synaesthesia in (neurology) is a neurological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation.
An hypothesis is used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation.
In this question we examine the neural reflex to the co-occurrence of a particular color and shape for survival in a species.
The cognitive response to the pair of colour and shape is key for a species is important for their survival.
There is and an absence of a positive identification cognition of what dangerous predator is to an animal, it logically anticipate and lock some features up in its mind for to identify a predator through association.
One of such association requires the species to be able to associate a certain color with a certain shape then respond with synaesthesia phenomenon as a flee warning or fight in the presence of probable threats or predator.
If this ability is missing a individual in a population is vulnetable and would not likely respond to only a part of the pair (colour and shape) as a incomplete information only for it to turn out to be a positive identification of a predator, could be too late.
