neural foundations pt 2

Question 1

central nervous system

Answer 1

spinal cord and brain

Question 2

brainstem

Answer 2

midbrain
pons
medulla

Question 3

lobes of cerebral cortex

Answer 3

frontal
parietal
temporal
occipital

Question 4

visual pathway

Answer 4

light from right visual field ends up at left side of each eye
partial cross over at optic chasm- right visual field ends up at left hemisphere

Question 5

dorsal and ventral paths

Answer 5

dorsal - where (location information)

ventral- what (identifying objects)

Question 6

cortical magnification

Answer 6

smallest parts of retinal field are expanded in corticies

Question 7

ocular dominance columns

Answer 7

stripes from left/right eye rotate ?

Question 8

orientation columns

Answer 8

feature detectors for lines at a particular orientation
in a certain area there is representation of each orientation
- evenly spaced “blobs”

Question 9

hypercolumns

Answer 9

contain ocular dominance columns, blobs, orientation columns