A major source of evidence against the idea that faces are processed in a special brain region in humans is that the candidate region
A) is used to process a variety of perceptual stimuli in nonhuman primates.
B) is also involved in processing highly familiar places.
C) is recruited when people have to make discriminations among highly familiar stimuli.
D) varies significantly in location from person to person.

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The candidate region, often referred to as the fusiform face area (FFA), is also activated when people make discriminations among highly familiar stimuli, not just faces, suggesting it may not be specialized exclusively for face processing.

A Major Source of Evidence Against the Idea That Faces