11 Light Sensitivity & Spatial Resolution Flashcards

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Q

Why do we have two photoreceptors?

A

Our species lives on a planet that has day and night

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Q

If more than one photons was needed to activate one receptor they would have to be ________

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synchronous

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Q

For a rod that needed two photons to respond, light intensity has to increase

A

102,000

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Chances of two photons captured by the same rod at the same time ( within 100 ms) ?

A

once every 16 years

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5
Q

Dim light is _____

A

NOISY. We can very reliably distinguish objects from one from the other.

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Objects (at day and night) are seen against a _______ background

A

Noisy

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What stops noisy background noise?

A

All the physiology we have talked about (horizontal cells, etc)

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Rods are _____ but they are _______

A

noisy, reliable

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Q

Why are rods so noisy?

A

They fire spontaneously, even when they do not have a photon to activate them

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Q

Rods fire spontaneously every _____ minute(s).

A

2

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what does “eigengrau” mean?

A

Spontaneous activity (in German)

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12
Q

In the picture in Slide 5 there are 3 colors. What does each mean?

Black =
Red =
Green =

A

Photon catch on rod of:

black = star
red = sky
green = eigengrau, rod pretends to catch photon

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***Picture in slide 6, important concept.

Rods will _________

A

saturate

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Rods will capture to 1, 2, 3 photons and _____ their amplitude of response.

At some point rods will _______ and stop increasing the amplitude of response.

A

increase, saturate

The rod cannot keep increasing their respond because what if 100 photons hit it? No….

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15
Q

If rods saturate, what does this mean for day light?

A

They are at their max response rate

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16
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Dynamic range of rods is ____ log units?

A

6

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17
Q

Summing responses of photons in rods is ___ log units?

A

2

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18
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A single rod can pick up a single photon within ___ seconds

A

30

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19
Q

In what conditions do rods do their best?

A

Dim light

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20
Q

Rods help detect slight gradations in what color?

A

Black/Grey

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21
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True/False: Rod bipolar cells receive the response from a single photon from a single rod (or from upwards of 200 photons from 10-15 different rods) and scales it before relaying the signal

A

True

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22
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Cones can respond to ________ photons/s catch rate

A

1,000000

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23
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Cones respond in ____ms and sum responses above rate of ____photons/s

A

50, 20

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24
Q

Cones have a dynamic range of ______

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True/False: Rods are less sensitive to a single photon than cones
False
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How reliable is a rod’s response as compared to a cone’s response?
With rods, a single rod can receive a signal from a single cone. A cone may respond to a single photon about 5% of the time.
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True/False: There is no overlap when cones pick up where rods begin to fail
False
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What conditions are photopic, mesopic, and scotopic?
Daylight (no rods), intermediate (between thresholds), and very dim light (only rods)
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Are rods or cones more reliable?
Rods (saturate more quickly)
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What will saturate both rods and cones?
A flash of light
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What will allow cones to operate at any light level?
Gradual increase in light
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Why is photoisomerization rate is limited to 1,000,000/s?
Regeneration of visual pigment molecules
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True/False: Like humans, all vertebrate cones do not saturate with steady light.
True
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True/False: All vertebrate rods detect single photons and can saturate
False
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Slide 14 | MAR
minimum angle of resolution (1 degree = 60 minutes)
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Slide 14 | Human acuity threshold
about 30 seconds (0.5 minutes of arc); note: 360 deg, 60 min per deg, etc.
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Slide 14 | 0.5 minimum angle corresponds
2.5 micrometers on the retina
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Slide 14 | Max VA of most humans
20/15 or 20/10 because of the size of receptive fields
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Slide 14 | Visual angles
Smaller when you are farther away from target; Bigger when you are closer to target
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Slide 15 | Contrast Sensitivity Stimuli
Contrast sensitivity and spacial frequency are closely related
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Slide 16 | Spacial frequency – Humans VS Cats
Humans are good at seeing spacial frequency grading in 2-6 cycle per degree range. Our VA is better than that of a cat
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Slide 16 | Spacial frequency 2
Cat Spacial frequency max out at 5-10 c/degree; humans max out at 60 cycles/degree
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Slide 16 | VA of a cat
Cats are myopic compared to humans; they can’t see far
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Slide 16 | logMAR
A logMAR of 1 equals 0 (equiv. of 20/20 Snellen); logMAR of 0 equals a NEGATIVE number (i.e 20/10)
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Slide 17 | Vernier Acuity
Very different from MAR. Requires good binocular vision; tests to see how well the 2 eyes are coordinating to line things up and organize perception in space of information coming in both eyes
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Slide 17 | Ambloypia
Can be improved with practice and training
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Slide 19 | Low Vision Chart
Letters are getting bigger as you deviate from the center. The chart is normalizing VA based on visual angle displacement; VA is much worse in the peripheral field
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Slide 20 | What is the target/goal behind viewing desaturated color dots with one's peripheral vision?
It get to be a very difficult task for the person to do so and very inaccurate because of the desatutarion of the object color and because of the lack of focus
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Slide 21 | Can we detect a deficiency of cone density on the retina?
yes, through a model presented on this slide, because of the patient's lack of detecting desaturated colors.
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Slide 21. | what does a simple behavioral test do?
detect cone damage.
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Slide 22 | How are acuities measured as?
angular resolution.
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Slide 22 | What is angular resolution?
it's the size of the gap (of the C).
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Slide 22 | What is a movement of a target detected by?
motion of the target within a certain range.
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slide 22. | motion detection is detected by what?
parasol cells
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Slide 23. | does spatial resolution decreases with increased visual eccentricity?
yes.
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Slide 23. | what decreases minimum angle of resolution?
visual eccentricity
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Slide 24. | does color resolution decreases with visual eccentricity?
Yes
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Slide 25. | what does receptive fields increase with?
visual eccentricity
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Slide 25. | what drives visual acuity?
the size of receptive fields