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Chapter 10: Vision and Visual Perception Flashcards

1
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How is light described as?

A

wavelengths

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2
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What are visible light ranges?

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~300 to 800 nm

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3
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How many light receptors does the eye contain?

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126 million

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4
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What is the visible light spectrum?

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The adequate stimulus of light that makes up 1/70th of the electromagnetic spectrum

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5
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How does light travel?

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Through oscillating waves similar to sound

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6
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What is the unit of measurement of light?

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a nanometer

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7
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Does the wavelength of light determine what color we see?

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yes

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8
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Where are the rods and cones found?

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in the back of the retina

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9
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What are the photoreceptors of light?

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The rods and cones

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10
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What does photopigment react with?

A

light

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11
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Where is rhodopsin found?

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in the rods in the periphery of the retina

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12
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Where is iodopsin found?

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in the cones, mostly fovea and surrounding area

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13
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What does iodopsin lead to?

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a neural impulse

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14
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What is the function of rhodopsin?

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Cannot distinguish color, is poor in detail, and is poor or not at all function in bright light. However, it is good for dim light.

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15
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What is the receptive field of rhodopsin?

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Contributes to light sensitivity and is large due to convergence of ganglion cells

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What is the function of iodopsin?

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Distinguishes color, detail is good, and is good in bright light but not in dim light

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17
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What is there more of in the retina?

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Rods

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18
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What is there more of in the fovea?

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Cones

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19
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What is the order after light hits?

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rods/cones>bipolar cell>ganglion cells

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What is the function of the fovea?

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Differentiate among different wavelengths of light like red, green, and blue

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21
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What is fovea known for?

A

the area for greatest visual acuity

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22
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What is the receptive field?

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The area in the retina from which ganglion cells receive input

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23
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What is the visual field?

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The part of the environment that is being registered in the retina

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24
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What is visual acuity?

A

the ability to distinguish details

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25
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What are amacrine and horizontal cells responsible for?

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Connecting to ganglion cells to provide the ability to distinguish details in visual acuity

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26
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The receptive field of cones are?

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small

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27
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The receptive fields for rods are?

A

large

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28
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Visual acuity is the greatest in?

A

The fovea

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29
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Where do neurons go when the rods and cones fire?

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The optic nerve through the blind spot

30
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What is the receptive field of iodopsin?

A

Small, with few cones converging into one single ganglion cell that contributes to detail vision

31
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What is the optic chiasm?

A

a part of the brain where the optic nerves cross

32
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What is the retinal disparity?

A

A cue in order to perceive how far something is

33
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How is blindness caused?

A

Deterioration of visual receptor but neural structures are intact

34
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Can sight be restored?

A

Yes, through replacing receptors with an artificial retina

35
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What is the trichromatic theory?

A

The primary colors are red, green, and blue they can detect every color

36
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Who introduced trichromatic theory?

A

Young-Helmholtz

37
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What is opponent process theory?

A

The ability to process colors is controlled by receptors with opposing actions such red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white. This theory explains the color yellow but is not backed up by physiological studies

38
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Who introduced the opponent processing theory?

39
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What is the combined theory?

A

We only perceive three colors which are red, blue, and green which can allow the eye to see every color in the visible light spectrum

40
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Who introduced the combined theory?

A

Hurvich and Jameson

41
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What is the cause of color blindness?

A

Defects in the cone system

42
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What is form vision?

A

the detection of an object’s boundaries and features

43
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Cells that activate when light hits the center, but turn off when light hits the periphery are called?

A

on center, off surround

44
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What is Hubel and Wiesel’s theory?

A

receptive fields are not circular as they are in the LGN and instead there is simple and complex cells

45
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What does the nervous system use to exaggerate brightness and contrast the edge of an object?

A

lateral inhibition

46
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What is the function of simple cells?

A

cells that respond to edges and gratings

47
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How is the visual cortex organized?

A

retinotopic where it hits in the retina is where it hits in the visual cortex but does not explain form vision

48
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What is the function of complex cells?

A

Getting input from the simple cells and detects where something starts/ends and may know texture

49
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What is spatial frequency theory?

A

different cells have different sensitivities and detect edges and graduation changes

50
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What is modular processing?

A

Brain functions are in separate locations

51
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What is hierarchical processing?

A

information is processed by ascending different levels in the nervous system

52
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What is distributed processing?

A

process occurs across a wide area of the brain

53
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What is the parvocellular system?

A

ganglion cells are located in the fovea, are small and discriminate fine detail and color

54
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What is the magnocellular system?

A

ganglion cells are the in the periphery, large, fast on-fast-off, and brightness contrast and movement

55
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What is the ventral system in the visual system?

A

process what something is (parvocellular)

56
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What is the dorsal system in the visual system?

A

process where something is (magnocellular)

57
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What happens when there is damage to the ventral system?

A

you can see, reach for, walk around objects but can identify them

58
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What happens if there is damage to the dorsal stream?

A

you can identify objects but have trouble looking at, reaching for, and grasping objects

59
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What is the dorsal and ventral system managed by?

A

The prefrontal cortex where it manages information like the body and objects in memory and plans movement

60
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What are the vision systems used in the ventral system?

A

V1-V2 into V4 for color then the inferior temporal cortex for object recognition

61
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What are the vision systems used in the dorsal system?

A

V1 for orientation, movement, and retinal disparity, then V2 and V5 for movement then the posterior parietal cortex

62
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What is the function of the inferior temporal area?

A

object recognition like geometric figures, houses, hands, faces

63
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What is object agnosia?

A

the impaired ability to recognize objects visually

64
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What is prosopagnosia?

A

the impaired ability to visually recognize familiar faces

65
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Is there a genetic link to prosopagnosia?

A

Yes, with deficits in frontal and temporal lobes on small number of cases

66
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What is the damage of blindsight?

A

Damage to V1 that causes cortical blindness where individuals can react unconsciously without seeing anything

67
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What is color agnosia?

A

the loss ability to perceive colors

68
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What is movement agnosia?

A

the inability to perceive movement

69
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What is fusiform face area?

A

a region of the fusiform gyrus critical for face recognition

70
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What is visual word form area?

A

the inferior temporal cortex that responds to whole written words

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