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Occipital Cortex Flashcards

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Vision

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Series of action potential (processing via electrical signals)
Retina–>Optic Nerve-> Optic chiasm–>Optic Tract–> Lateral geniculate body (LGB in thalamus)–> Optic radiation –> Primary Visual cortex (first point where visual info is processed)

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Primary Visual Cortex

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V1->V5 increases acuity of visual info ei light vs dark to finer details

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Calcarine Sulcus

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Divides the crude visual info from V1 into upper and lower halves in the Occipital Cortex
(Sulcus are cracks in the brain)

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Lingual Gyrus

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Visual cortical region of V2 and Ventral Posterior area

Gyrus are bumps in the brain folds

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Fusiform Gyrus

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V4 Complex processing near the temporal lobe (hearing and vision) aiding with processing

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Human Cortex

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6 layers of cells

V1 could have more than 6

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V1

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First cortical area involved in visual processing
Relays visual input from LGN to the extrastriate cortex for higher-order processing (ei shape motion and colour)
Laminar (dark then light repeat) organization (striated)
Heterogeneous with more than 1 distinct function with the function preserved in V2

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Striated Cortex (V1 and V2)

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Thin Stripe = color perception
Thick Stripes = form and motion
Blobs = metabolically active and sensitive to colour
Interblobs = sensitive to orientation

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V4

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Colour vision and facial recognition movement depth and position

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Connections of the visual cortex

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V1 inputs from LGN to upper levels
V2 further outputs to other levels
Other outer outputs include:
Parietal lobe -> Dorsal Stream

Superior Temporal Sulcus -> STS stream

Inferior Temporal Lobe -> Ventral Stream

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Dorsal Stream

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Parietal Lobe
Visual Guidance of Movement
“the where”

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Ventral Stream

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Temporal inferior
Object Perception
the What

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Superior Temporal Sulcus

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Combination of visuospatial function

Social Perception and Cognition
Language, voices, faces, biological motion, theory of mind

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Occipital Lobe Function Movement

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Blobs(V1) –> V4 (Colour)
Interblobs(V1) –> V5 (Motion)
V1+V2 –> V3 (Shape of objects in motion)

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Damage to Occipital Lobe

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Legions in specific areas of the Occipital lobe up the different hierarchy produce different visual deficits

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Visual Function beyond Occipital Lobe

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55% of the total cortex of the brain is visually related

present in temporal, parietal and frontal lobes

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5 Categories for Vision

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  1. Vision for Action
  2. Action for Vision
  3. Recognition
  4. Space
  5. How not to get overwhelmed
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  1. Vision for Action
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Parietal Visual Areas in the Dorsal Stream
Reactionary Vision
Ducking
Catching
BOTTOM UP or Reaction
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  1. Action for Vision
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Attentive vision
Visual scanning
Eye Movement and Selective Attention
TOP-DOWN or cognitive Processing
Agnosic Subject have random scanning of eye movement
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  1. Visual Recognition
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Temporal Lobes
Inferior temporal cortext
“what pathways” Object Recognition

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  1. Visual Space
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Parietal Lobes
Spatial location ('where" pathways)
Egocentric space (location of object to self)
Allocentric space (location of objects to each other)
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  1. Visual Attention
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Paying attention to certain info and filtering nonessential info
Prevents getting overwhelming of cognitive capacity

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Milner-Goodale Model

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2 Visual Streams (dorsal and ventral) allow for consistency even when visual stimuli is changing

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Monocular Blindness

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Loss of Sight in 1 eye

Due to optic chiasm legion

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Bitemporal hemianopia

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Partial loss of vision in both temporal (peripheral vision) fields.
Usually damages to a tumor in the pituitary gland that puts pressure on the optic chiasm.

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Right/Left Nasal Hemianopia

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Caused by a lesion in the lateral chiasm leading to the partial loss of vision in one nasal field.

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Homonymous hemianopia

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The blindness of one the visual field due to damage in the optic tract, LGN or V1

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Quadrantanopia

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Loss of vision in 1/4 of the visual field, due to cortex lesions near the calcarine sulcus

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Macular sparing

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part of visual field spared from damage

legion spares the central part as there might be an increased vascular supply to prevent entire lost

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Patient BK

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Right infarct in occipital lobe -> Quandrantanopia
Experienced Blindsight
could perceive prior location once the light moved into a functioning quandrant

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Patient DB

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MRI showing inflamed blood vessels (angioma) in Right Calcarine Fissure
Symptoms of Hemianopia and cortical blindness

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Patient LM

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Vascular abnormality caused by damage in V5

Symptoms include the inability to intercept moving objects –> loss of movement vision

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Patient VK

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Bilateral hemorrhage in occipitoparietal region
Symptom include optic ataxia
the deficit in visually guided hand movements

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Patient D

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Right occipitotemporal lesion

Prosopagnosia: Deficit in facial recognition

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Patient T

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Left occipitotemporal lesion

symptoms include alexia( inability to read words )

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Apperceptive Object Agnosia

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Unable to recognize/copy/match shapes

Gross Bilateral damage to occipital cortex

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Associative Object Agnosia

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Can perceive objects but cannot identify them

caused by legions to anterior temporal lobes

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Prosopagnosia

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Facial agnosia

Bilateral damage to temporal cortex

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Alexia

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Dyslexia

Damage to left ( Left for language) fusiform and lingual areas

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Visuospatial Agnosia

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Topographic Disorientation

Damage to occipitotemporal regions and medial fusiform and lingual areas

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