According to your text, our varied and complex sensations of touch reflect the activity of a very small number of basic receptor types. This is most nearly analogous to:
A)the way pitch is processed, according to place theory
B)the way color is processed, according to opponent-process theory
C)the way form is processed, according to the Gestalt psychologists
D)the way color is processed, according to trichromatic theory

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The analogy is between the small number of basic touch receptors that give rise to complex sensations of touch and the trichromatic theory of color vision, which posits that three types of color receptors (cones) in the eye are responsible for the perception of the full spectrum of colors.

According to Your Text, Our Varied and Complex Sensations of Touch