Exam 2

Question 0

Most visual detail

Answer 0

At center of gaze, move eye around to get more information

Question 1

4 themes of vision

Answer 1

1 eye is not a camera
2 sensory is localized
3 hierarchal computation
4 plasticity

Question 2

Localization of function

Answer 2

Areas for face, landscapes, words ects.
Damaged to one specific area only effects that function
Develop with environment

Question 3

Plasticity

Answer 3

Brain can repair self,
Ability diminishes with age
Ability scan become active at any point

Question 4

Cataracts

Answer 4

Can still see some light , some stimulation for eyes
When removed can gain back vision.
See outline of color first before recognizing as distinct object

Question 5

Bonet syndrome

Answer 5

Like watching film, no interactions, just watching.
Usually after stoke, loss of vision
Brain generating images, Not from eyes

Question 6

Prosopagnosia

Answer 6

Inability to recognize faces

Causes: stroke, tumor, infection,injury, Alzheimer’s, lessions

Question 7

Western Theory of mind in relation to vision

Answer 7

Function of mind and brain linked

Collection of different functioning parts like organs

Question 8

Capgrass syndrome

Answer 8

Recognize faces but no longer generate a sense of emotional familiarity
Think people are imposters
Think normal, can’t be convinced wrong

Question 9

Fusiform face area

Answer 9

Activated when look at faces

If doesn’t not that doesn’t exist but that it is damaged

Question 10

Recognition and familiarity

Answer 10

Recognition - knowledge

Familiarity - feeling

Question 11

Can’t recognize places

Answer 11

Lost in space, don’t recognize where they are

Question 12

Able to write but not read

Answer 12

Localization, two separate functions in separate areas of brain

Question 13

Alexia

Answer 13

Inability to recognize words
Area of brain specific to reading
Left optical lobe damage
Not connected to writing

Question 14

Wallace problem

Answer 14

Writing and reading haven’t been a thing long enough for it to be contributed to natural selection

Wallace attributed to God

Question 15

Wallace problem not a problem

Answer 15

Biological structures might fight uses different from what original,y eve loved to do
Originally general recognition?

Question 16

Ecology

Answer 16

No one is an outside observer of nature
Each of us is defined by our ecology
It is necessary, relative, historical, and empirical.

Question 17

Optical illusions

Answer 17

Brain evolved in way that is useful to see, not just to see every detail

Question 18

Approaches to robot vision

Answer 18

Based on human eye function ( moving around subtly to get more detail) or software approach, how to detect things human can like orientation

Question 19

Eye is not camera

Answer 19

Captures light similarly to lens, but take incomplete information / image , emphasizes certain things and throws other parts away, different parts interpret particular parts of image to understand

Question 20

Sensory is localized

Answer 20

Different functions like recognizing faces vs reading. If one part damaged doesn’t necessarily compromise rest of vision

Question 21

Vision/ brain hierarchal

Answer 21

Start with basic info such as where edges are and move up to more and more complex recognizing

Question 22

Visual computation

Answer 22

Brain is interpreting information that is useful to us. What we understand is not a precise replica of world.
It makes guesses to give information we need.