单选题 The author mentions the research performed on hamsters and rats most probably in order to

• (A) demonstrate a case where the implications of the labeled-line hypothesis clearly do not hold
• (B) show the limits of experimental inquiry in determining the role of the individual neuron in taste
• (C) explain the necessity for determining the extent to which visual perception is analogous to gustatory perception
• (D) provide further corroboration for the predictions made by the across-pattern model of taste neurology
• (E) prove the salient differences between taste perception in humans and in animals