With her eyes closed and her nose plugged,Chandra was unable to taste the difference between an onion and a pear.Her experience best illustrates the importance of

A) sensory interaction.
B) the McGurk effect.
C) psychokinesis.
D) synesthesia.

Chandra's inability to distinguish between an onion and a pear despite her nose being plugged and eyes being closed suggests that her sense of taste was influenced by her sense of smell and vision, which is an example of sensory interaction. The McGurk effect refers to a perceptual phenomenon in which the sound of a spoken word is influenced by the movement of the speaker's mouth. Psychokinesis refers to the alleged ability to move objects using only one's mind, and synesthesia refers to a condition in which one sensory stimulus triggers an automatic response in another sensory modality.