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Cranial Nerve II Flashcards

1
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What is the believed function of CN 0

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Unconscious smell of pheromones

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Optic nerve attach, type, and function

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Attach: Cerebrum (diechephalon)
Type: Sensory
Function: Vision

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Oculomotor nerve attach, type, and function

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Attach: Midbrain
Type: Motor
Function: Eye muscles, lids, pupil contractions, lens shape

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Trochlear nerve attach, type and function

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Attach: Midbrain
Type: Motor
Function: Eye muscle (downward and inward)

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Trigeminal nerve attach, type, and function

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Attach: Pons
Type: Both
Function: Face sensation and chewing

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Abducens nerve attach, type, and function

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Attach: Pons
Type: Motor
Function: Eye muscles

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Facial nerve attach, type, and function

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Attach: Pons
Type: Both
Function: Facial expressions, lip articulation, gustation (anterior tongue), and secretion of saliva and tears

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Vestibulocochlear nerve attach, type, and function

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Attach: Pons
Type: Sensory
Function: Hearing and equilibrium

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Glossopharyngeal nerve attach, type, and function

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Attach: Medulla
Type: Both
Function: Taste (posterior tongue), muscles at tongue base (gag reflex and swallowing), and phonation of pharynx

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Vagus nerve attach, type, and function

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Attach: Medulla
Type: Both
Function: Swallow, speak, parasympathetic visceral muscle movement, sensory info from the larynx, esophagus, trachea, and abdominal and thoracic viscera

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11
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True or False:

Color is an illusion created by the brain

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True

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12
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True or False:

Cranial nerve II is the most accurate/veridical of the cranial nerves but isn’t perfect

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True

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13
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True or False:

Vision is the only sensory system that provides accurate spatial info from a distance

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True

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14
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What is the range of wavelengths our eye can perceive

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390-740 nm

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15
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As you go right on the wavelength meter what happens to wavelength and frequency

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Wavelength increases and frequency decreases

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16
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How fast does light move

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300,000 km/s

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17
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True or False:

Light tends to travel in a straight line

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True

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18
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What does light traveling in a straight line maintain

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Spatial info

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What is it called when you change the medium that light travels through changing it’s direction

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Refraction

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20
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What is the process by which a beam of light spreading out as a result of passing through a narrow aperture or edge

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Diffraction

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21
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True or False:

Light is a particle and a wave

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True

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22
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A long wavelength has what frequency and energy

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Low frequency and energy

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A short wavelength has what frequency and energy

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High frequency and energy

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24
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What does wavelength correlate to perceptually

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Hue/color

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25
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What does amplitude correlate to perceptually

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Brightness

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26
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What does purity correlate to perceptually

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Saturation

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27
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What is the most important perceptual cue

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Color

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28
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White light contains what

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Every wavelength

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29
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The human eye has how many layers and chambers

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3 layers

2 chambers

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30
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What is the outer layer of the eye

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Sclera and cornea

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31
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What is middle layer of the eye

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Choroid, iris, and ciliary body

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32
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What is the inner layer of the eye

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Retina

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33
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What is in the anterior chamber

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Aqueous humor

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34
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What is in the posterior chamber

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Vitreous humor

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35
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What is the vascular layer of the eye

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Choroid

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36
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What is the major refracting medium of the eye

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Cornea

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37
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True or False:

The retina is organized so that it is able to work under low and high light conditions

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True

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38
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Is the retina mostly rods or cones

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Rods

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39
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What side of the retina does the the right side of the world project on

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The left hemiretina

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40
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What are the 3 colors the cones can perceive

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Red, blue, and green

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41
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What color can the rods see

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Black only

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42
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What bend light when it comes into the eye

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Cornea and lens

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43
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What is the blind spot due to

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Lack of photoreceptors on the optic disc

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44
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What is the process in which light is converted into electrical stimuli by rods and cones

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Transduction

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45
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True or False:

Primates have inverted retinae

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True

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46
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What is the deepest layer of the retina

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The photoreceptors

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47
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What are the 5 cell types of the retina in order from superficial to deep

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  1. Ganglion cells
  2. Bipolar cells
  3. Amacrine cells
  4. Horizontal cells
  5. Photoreceptors
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48
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What are closer to/synapse with the rods and cones the amacrine cells or the horizontal cells

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Horizontal cells

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49
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What are closer to/synapse with the ganglion cells the amacrine cells or horizontal cells

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Amacrine cells

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50
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What is at the optic disc

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Axons to the brain and blood supply to the eye

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51
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What is the fovea

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The location on the retina where there is the highest concentration of cones and no rods

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52
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Where on the retina does the clearest part of our world fall

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Fovea

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53
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True or False:

What you focus on will be on the fovea

54
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What is the function of the horizontal and amacrine cells

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Modulate the output by mostly inhibiting the cells

55
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True or False:

All special sense organs have bipolar cells

56
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What is an on center ganglion cell

A

Light onto the center of the cell will excite the cell but light not on the center will cause inhibition

57
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What is an off center ganglion cell

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Light onto the center of the cell will inhibit the cell but light not on the center will cause excitation

58
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What does central surrounding antagonism help with

A

Determine edges and features

59
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How many rods are in the eyes

A

125 million

60
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True or False:

Rods respond fairly consistently to all wavelengths of light

61
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True or False:

Rods are achromatic

62
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What does achromatic mean

A

Can’t discriminate wavelenghts

63
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How many photopigments do rods have

64
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What is the name of the photopigment of the rod

65
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What is the maximum sensitivity of rods

66
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How many cones do we have

67
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True or False:

Cones respond preferentially to specific wavelengths

68
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How many photopigments do the cones have

69
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What is the name of the photopigments of cones

70
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True or False:

Each cone is maximally sensitive to a different portion of the spectrum

71
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What color corresponds to short, medium, and long wavelengths

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Short: blue/violet 420 nm
Medium: Green 530 nm
Long: Red 650 nm

72
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How did cones originally form

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They were mutations of rods

73
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Where are red cones the most common

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In the periphery

74
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What is the maximum wavelength considered

A

The color the cone responds to

75
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Do rods enable vision in conditions of low or high light

A

Low light (night vision)

76
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What does loss of rods produce

A

Night blindness

77
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True or False:

Rods are relatively light sensitive

78
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True or False:

Rods contain more photopigments than cones

79
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Do rods require more or less photons than cones do to elicit maximal response

80
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True or False:

Cones are responsible for day vision

81
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True or False:

Cones are relatively light sensitive

82
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Do cones contain more or less photopigment than rods

83
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How many photons are required to elicit a response from a cone

84
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Do rods provide clear images and why

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No because they are looking at so much of the visual field

85
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How many ganglion cell axons are there that exit the retina and go to the brain

86
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Do rods converge or not

87
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Do cones converge or not

A

Don’t converge

88
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Do cones provide clear images and why

A

Yes, because the only gather light of a small part of the visual field

89
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Do rods have a high degree of convergence or low

90
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What does the high degree of convergence in the rods allow for

A

See well under conditions of low light

91
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What does high convergence do to spatial resolution

A

Inhibits it so image is fuzzy

92
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True or False:

There are no rods in the fovea

93
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Do cones have a high degree of convergence or low

94
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What is the ratio of cones to ganglion cells at the fovea

95
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What does low convergence do to spatial resolution

A

Excellent spatial resolution so very clear image

96
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Is there convergence of the cones onto ganglion cells in the fovea

97
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Is the distribution of rods and cones the same on the retina

98
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True or False:

As you get closer to the fovea there are more rods but not rods in the fovea

99
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Do rods and cones have action potentials or graded potentials

A

Graded potentials

100
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Do rods and cones have axons

A

No, this is why they cannot fire action potentials

101
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Where does the first action potential occur in the retina

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The ganglion cells

102
Q

What is the role of the hypothalamus

A

It is in charge of how to correct imbalances on the outside

103
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Where do ganglion cell axons project to (4)

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  1. Lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus
  2. Superior colliculi
  3. Some brainstem nuclei
  4. Suprachiasmatic nucleus
104
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What are in charge of the perceptual aspects of vision

A

Lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus

105
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What are in charge of the non-perceptual aspects of vision (3)

A
  1. Superior colliculi
  2. Some brainstem nuclei
  3. Suprachiasmatic nucleus
106
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What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus’ role

A

Circadian rhythm

107
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Are parasol cells poly or monochromatic

A

Monochromatic

108
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Do parasol cells have large or small cell bodies and receptive fields

109
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What do parasol cells process

A

Movement and gross features of a stimulus

110
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What do the parasol cells project via and to

A

Via large diameter fibers to the magnocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus

111
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Do midget cells have large or small cell bodies and receptive fields

112
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Are there a lot or a little midget cells

113
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What do midget cells do

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Process fine detail and color

114
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What do the midget cells project via and to

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Small diameter fibers to parvocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus

115
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How does the image come in on the retina

A

Upside down and backwards

116
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What happens at the optic chiasm

A

Info from the eyes divides

117
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Where is the right visual field represented on the retina

A

The left hemiretina of each eye

118
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What fibers cross at the optic chiasm

A

Medial fibers

119
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Where is information from the right visual field sent for processing

A

The left visual cortex

120
Q

What do the 2 visual cortices share info with each other via

A

Splenium of the corpus callosum

121
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What layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus are parvocellular layers

122
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What layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus are magnocellular layers

123
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What do the parvocellular layers receive input from

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Retinal ganglion midget cells

124
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What do the parvocellular layers send output to

A

Primary visual cortex (4Cb)

125
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What do the magnocellular layers receive input from

A

Retinal ganglion parasol cells

126
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What do the magnocellular layers send output to

A

Primary visual cortex (4Ca)

127
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Where in the internal capsule do the optic radiations travel to get to the visual cortex

A

Posterior limb

128
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Where do radiations from the lateral geniculate nucleus travel (2)

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  1. Up and over ventricles through the parietal lobe

2. Up and over ventricles through the temporal lobe

129
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What radiations/pathways go to the temporal lobe

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Detail orientation so parvocellular pathways

130
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What radiations/pathways go to the parietal lobe

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Spatial orientation so magnocellular pathways

131
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What does damage to the temporal lobe radiations cause

A

Trouble with what they are looking at

132
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What does damage to the parietal lobe radiations cause

A

Trouble with where they are looking

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