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Intro to Behavioral Neuroscience > Chapter 10: Vision > Flashcards

Chapter 10: Vision Flashcards

1
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Vision

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The detection of light in an environment.

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Light

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Certain frequencies of electromagnetic waves.

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3
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Pinhole Camera

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Image gets converted as it passes through an aperture

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4
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What serves a main importance in vision?

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The shape of the eye

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5
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Myopia

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Eye is too long so the image surrounding the retina is blurred.

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6
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How can myopia be resolved?

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Glasses

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7
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What two sides are the retina divided into?

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  1. temporal
  2. nasal
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8
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If the image hits the outer edge of the eye, it fields into the ___ side of the brain.

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SAME

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If the image hits the inner edge of the eye, it fields into the ___ side of the brain.

A

OPPOSITE

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10
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What side is the temporal retina on?

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Left

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11
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What side is the nasal retina on?

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Right

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12
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Are the things that the left and right eye see identical?

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No

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13
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What is the one type of cell in the retina that produces AP?

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Ganglion cells

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14
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Rods

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-Work in dim light
- Black and white
(scotopic system)

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15
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Cones

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  • Work in bright light
  • differentiate between wavelengths of light
  • Color
    -(photopic system)
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16
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What are the 5 types of cells in the retina?

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  1. Photoreceptors (rods and cones)
  2. Bipolar cells
  3. Amacrine cells
  4. Horizontal cells
  5. Ganglion cells
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17
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Retina

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Large convergence of inputs outside the fovea (very little inside)

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18
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What does your visual system respond to?

A

Changes in light

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19
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Horizontal and Amacrine Cells

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Very important for interactions with the retina

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20
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Lateral Inhibition

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Inhibitory connections between interneurons create a sharper border contrast.

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21
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What is an example of horizontal and amacrine cells?

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Lateral inhibition

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22
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How does photoreceptor transduce light into neural signals?

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Rods

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23
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What is the pathway of light?

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  1. Light hyper polarizes neurons, which reduces neurotransmitter release
  2. It breaks up retinal/rhodopsin, eventually leading to the closing of Na+ channels
  3. The cascade of effects increase the sensitivity of cells
  4. Information is integrated over time, leading to increased sensitivity but not as god temporal resolution.
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24
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How do we handle a huge range in light intensity?

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Pupils constrict/dilate

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25
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Range Fractionation

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Rods vs Cones

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26
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Adaption

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Cells themselves can adapt to ambient light

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27
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Calcium ions

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Cells that regulate intracellular levels, which alters neurons sensitivity

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28
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What is needed for transduction?

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Availability of chemicals

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29
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What is sensitivity of the eye influenced by?

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the ratio of rate of breakdown/recombination of retinal/rhodopsin.

30
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What do cones connect to?

A

Bipolar neurons

31
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How many types of bipolar cells are there?

32
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How do bipolar cells respond?

A

Oppositely when the cone hyper polarizes

33
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What receptor fields are used for bipolar cells?

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On center and Off center

34
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What receptive field do ganglion and LGN cells have?

A

Concentric receptive fields

35
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On Surround pairs with

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off center

36
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Off Surround pairs with

37
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Parvocellular Cells

A

Small receptive fields, not responsive to different wavelengths.

38
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Magnocellular Cells

A

Large receptive fields, not responsive to different wavelengths.

39
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Ganglion cells can be labeled…

A

M or P
(magnocellular or parvocellular)

40
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What do cortical cells require to respond?

A

specific stimuli

41
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Simple Cortical Cells

A

Respond to edge or bar with particular width, location, and orientation.

42
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Complex Cortical Cells

A

Elongated receptive fields, not as tied to location.

43
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High frequencies require ___ receptive fields.

44
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What cells are an example of high frequency?

A

Cells in the fovea (detail and sharp contrasts)

45
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Low frequency cells

A

Cells in the periphery with larger receptive fields

46
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What are low frequency cells more involved in?

A

Gradual transitions and large uniform areas.

47
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Where does visual information initially come from?

A

V1 region - layer IV cells

48
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V2 Region

A

Responsible for illusory contours
(similar to V1 in processing)

49
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V4 Region

A

Receives input from V2 and responds to sinusoidal frequencies.
- Concentric and radial stimuli

50
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V5 Area

A

Perception of Motor

51
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Inferior Temporal (IT)

A

Complex forms

52
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What is the Inferior Temporal apart of?

A

Prefrontal cortex = responds to faces

53
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Layer IV

A

Receives LGN input (molecular input)

54
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How do all layers except layer IV receive input?

A

binocularly

55
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How is the V1 cortex organized?

A

Columns (same ocular dominance through each)

56
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How are the columns linked together?

A

ocular dominance slabs

57
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Columns within the same region respond…

A

In the same way

58
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What is color constructed by?

A

Your visual system

59
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Trichromatic Hypothesis (Helmholtz)

A

Photoreceptors would have specific, defined wavelengths
-they respond to 3 of them.

60
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What can photoreceptors not fully account for?

61
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Opponent Process Theory

A

Opponent pairs of colors

Red vs Green
Blue vs Yellow
Black vs White

62
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How do you get better color discrimination?

A

When colors oppose each other

64
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Why are these spectrally opposing cells so useful?

A

Cones show significant overlap (M and L cones have very close absorbance peaks)

65
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Region V4 is specifically important for…

A

Processing color

66
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What does processing color require?

A

Context (comparison with nearby colors)

67
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What type of vision is not widespread among mammals?

A

Trichromatic Vision (depends on the need of the animal)

68
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Dorsal stream processes…

A

Movement and location

69
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Ventral stream processes…

A

objects, faces, etc.

70
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Patient DF

A

Had CO2 poisoning and could not recognize objects/faces

71
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Patient DF had damage to…

A

Ventral stream, but not dorsal

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