Lectuer 1 Flashcards
Why do we move they eyes
To improve input from the outside world by bringing an image onto the fovea and keeping it there
What is the role of the occipital lobe in the visual system
It is the receiving station from the eye
What’s is the role of the Parietal lobe in the visual system
It is responsible for object location
What is the role of the anterior lobe in the visual system?
To recognise objects
What is the role of the frontal lobe inn the visual system?
To control eye movement
What are the diffrent types of eye movements?
Saccades
Fixations
Smooth pursuit
Otokineatic nystsagmus
Vestibular ocular reflex
Vengeance movements
How does the eye scan a visual scene
Fast eye moments (saccades) and steady fixations
What is the purpose of VOR?
To stabilise the image when the body or head is moving
What is the purpose of smooth pursuit?
It track a moving object
What is the purpose of optokinetic nystagmus?
To track a whole moving visual field
A saccade is
Very fast (900 degrees per second)
Voluntary
Conjugate
What comprises a fixation
Microscaadees drift and tremor
What are the features of smooth pursuit?
It’s voluntary(althiuyghn needs to see a moving target)
Requires the brain to estimate how fast a target is moving
It’s conjugate
What are the features of OKN
Has a slow and fast phase slow inn the direction of the target and fast to reset the eyes.
It is involuntary and driven by a moving visual field
And conjugate
What are the features of VOR
Keeps gaze steady
Extremely rapid
Involuntary (driven by vestibular system)
Conjugate