Which of the following statements does NOT explain why some patients are visually agnosic for living (animate) things versus nonliving (inanimate) things?
A)Knowledge about different categories of objects may be represented in different parts of the brain.
B)Inanimate objects may activate kinesthetic representations that animate objects do not.
C)Animate objects may share more visual features than inanimate objects.
D)There are more familiar animate objects in the environment than inanimate objects.

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The distinction between animate and inanimate object recognition does not depend on the familiarity or quantity of objects in the environment but rather on how different categories of objects are processed and represented in the brain, their visual features, and possibly the activation of different cognitive representations.

Which of the Following Statements Does NOT Explain Why Some