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Chapter Six Flashcards

1
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Transduction

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physical stimulation –> brain activity

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In humans, which sensation has more brain devoted to it?

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Vision

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In rodents, which sensation has more brain devoted to it?

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olfaction

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what exactly is light?

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a wave of which we see a narrow range

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Sclera

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the white membrane on outside of eye; not transparent-no light can pass through

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Cornea

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transparant film on the front of the eye; one of the fastest repairing tissues

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Iris

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muscle that regulates amount of light that comes into the eye; changes size of pupil

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Pupil

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hole in the front of the eye

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Lens

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directly behind the pupil; focuses light waves as they come into the eye

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Accommodation

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the lens literally changes shape

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Vitreous Humor

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gel-like; allowed eye to keep spherical shape

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Retina

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nervous tissue; where light (which comes in right to left) gets focused

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Retina is made up of three cell types

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photoreceptors, bipolar cells, ganglion cells

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Photoreceptors

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very back of the retina; rods & cones

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15
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Bipolar cells

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middle

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Ganglion cells

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front of the retina; axons make up the optic nerve

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Rods

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(120 mil) outside edge of retina; seeing with low light levels

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Cones

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(6 mil) middle of retina; color vision, visual acuity-seeing in detail

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Pigment in the photoreceptors

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Opsin (protein) and retinal (lipid)

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20
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What are the colors of cones?

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red, blue, and green

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21
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What does contact with light do to the photopigment?

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splits the photopigment

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What does the split in the photopigment cause?

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change in release of glutamate (excitatory) , which causes chain reaction

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23
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What is the end result with the photoreceptors?

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ganglion cells are stimulated and these cells make up the optic nerve

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Once the retina is stimulated, where does the nerve impulse travel?

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  1. ) dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (thalamus) and 2.) optic radiations carry signal to the primary visual cortex (AKA striate nucleus)
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Optic radiatons

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the pathway from 1-2 (dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus–> primary visual cortex

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Receptive Field

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part of environment that stimulates neurons-group on retina; the part of the visual field that a neuron “sees”

27
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Fovea

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has the greatest concentration of cones; absolute dead center of the retina

28
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How many ganglion cells does each cone have?

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One

29
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In the periphery, how many rods does each ganglion cell connect to?

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there may be 10 rods to each ganglion cell

Why visual acuity is better at the fovea

30
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Three varieties of ganglion cells

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ON, OFF, ON/OFF

31
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What do receptive fields look like?

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they have a center that is surrounded by a ring

32
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When you mix red, blue, and green light, what do you get?

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White

33
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Trichromatic Theory

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we see color because we have three different kinds of cones

34
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Where does perception come from?

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the stimulation of cones (3 types)

35
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How many of each color of cones are there?

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Red and green equal each other, there are fewer blue ones

36
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How are different colors seen?

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because of different ratios and intensities; cones are stimulated in different ways

37
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Color blindness

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deficiency in number of cones of chemical

38
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Protanopia

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confusion of red/green; see world as yellows and blues

39
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Deuteranopia

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green cones filled with red photopigment

40
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Tritanopia

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rarest form; deficient in blue cones; see world as red and green

41
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Ganglion cells

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also involved in color processing; they follow a center-surround orientation

42
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What explains negative afterimages?

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ganglion cells; when stimulation is taken away, the other color in the pair rebounds

43
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Primary Visual Cortex (striate cortex)

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found next to calcarine fissure, occipital lobe.

44
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What do cells in the primary visual cortex respond to?

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specific bits of information

1/4 is devoted to fovea

45
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Orientation of lines

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different lines turn on different cells in the PVC

46
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Retinal Disparity

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because two eyes are separated; each eye sees a slightly different image; cells in PVS respond vigorously when each eye receives a slightly different image

47
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CO blobs

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further interpretation of color

48
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Organization of PVC

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organized in modules (columns)- 25,000 modules each with 150,000 neurons; 1/2 mm x 3/4 mm and analyze features from that part of the visual field

49
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What does the PVC provide?

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color, input to orientation, texture, disparity

50
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Visual Association Cortex

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this lies outside of the occipital lobe

51
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Ventral Stream

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WHAT-temporal lobe

52
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Dorsal Stream

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WHERE-parietal lobe

53
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Form Perception

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temportal lobe-ventral stream based; region combines info bout color, form, and dimension; neurons respond to 3D objects

54
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Agnosia

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disruption of form perception; cannot recognize visually-body makes appropriate gestures for object; can use other non-visual senses to recognize

55
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Apperceptive Agnosia

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cannot draw or copy

56
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Associative Agnosia

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can copy, but now draw from memory

57
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Prosapagnosia

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the recognition deficit is very specific to a certain object; can see individual features but cannot recognize; can use other sensory modalities to recognize (walk, etc.)

58
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What does evidence show the right temporal cortex is most important for?

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face recognition; faces may be special, as cases of object agnosia, but face recognition was left intact

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