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T2 L10 Physiology of vision Flashcards

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How is focus varied?

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Changing shape & power of the lens

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What does the ray bending?

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Cornea does 2/3

Lens does other 1/3 & allows focus to vary (accommodation)

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What is hypermetropia?

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Long sightedness

Eyeball is too short or lens system too weak

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How is hypermetropia corrected?

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Converging lens

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What is myopia?

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Short sightedness

Eyeball is too long or lens system too strong

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How is myopia corrected?

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Add diverging lens

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What is the refractive power of a lens measured in?

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Dioptres
Reciprocal of focal length in metres
2D spectacle has focal length of 0.5m

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What is the consequence of vertebrate retina evolving back to front?

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Ganglion cells & blood vessels are in light path to photoreceptors except in fovea

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What are the 3 direct processing layers?

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Receptors
Bipolar cells
Ganglion cells

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10
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What are the 2 transverse processing layers?

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Horizontal cells

Amacrine cells

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What happens when a proton hits rhodopsin molecule?

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Retinal flips from 11 cis to all trans

Leads to biochemical events resulting from the electrical change (hyper polarisation) in the cell membrane

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What do ganglion cells respond strongly & weakly to?

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Weakly to changes in overall light intensity

Strongly to local contrast i.e. light on a dark background or dark on a light background

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What is the basic response pattern?

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Either on centre or off centre
On cells are stimulated by stimulus in centre & inhibited by stimulus in surrounding
Off cells are inhibited by stimulus in centre & stimulated by stimulus in surrounding

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14
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What is the sensitivity of red cones?

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560nm

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What is the sensitivity of green cones?

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530nm

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What is the sensitivity of blue cones?

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What is the sensitivity of rods?

18
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What is the most frequent type of cone?

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Red cone then green cone then blue cone

19
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What is the spacing between cones?

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2.5 micrometers which corresponds to angle of 0.5 minutes of arc

20
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What is colour blindness?

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Loss or modification of one of the 3 pigments

21
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What genes are on the X chromosome?

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Genes for red & green pigment

22
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What chromosome is the gene for blue pigment?

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Chromosome 7

23
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What is central achromatopsia?

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Rarer kind of colour blindness

Caused by damage to cortical colour processing areas (V4)

24
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Where do optic tracts relay?

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In lateral geniculate nucleus of thalamus

A part goes to superior colliculus in midbrain

25
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Where does the output of the lateral geniculate nucleus go to?

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Striate cortex in occipital lobe (V1)

26
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Describe columnar organisation in primary visual cortex

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Outer dominance column
Smaller orientational columns
Colour blobs

27
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Describe smaller orientational columns

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Orientation of optimal stimuli various systemically across surface

28
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Describe colour blobs

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Colour information kept separate from orientation

Passed on to other regions e.g. V4

29
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What are some causes of partial visual loss?

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Left eye blindness
Homonymous hemianopia
Bitemporal hemianopia
Scotoma

30
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What are the causes of scotoma?

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Retinal damage
Lesions in visual cortex
Pressure from tumours restricting optic nerve, chasm, optic tract or optic radiation

31
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Where does the dorsal stream go and what is it for?

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From occipital to parietal cortex
Location
Motion
Action

32
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Where does ventral stream go and what is it for?

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From occipital to temporal cortex
Object & face identity
Conscious perception

33
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What is visual agnosia?

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Person can see but can’t recognise or interpret visual information due to disorder in parietal lobes

34
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What is visual ataxia?

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Person can’t describe but can’t act

35
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What is prosopagnosia?

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Inability to recognise familial faces

Associated with damage to specific parts of temporal lobe such as fusiform gyrus on underside of lobe

36
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What causes blindsight?

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Destruction of striate cortex leading to blindness in part o visual field corresponding to damaged area
Individuals not aware of stimuli within blind field but if forced to guess they can perform some discrimination tasks & point accurately to locations of stimuli (blindsight phenomena)

37
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What is the vestibulo-occular reflex?

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Stabilises gaze by countering movement of head

38
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What is optokinetic reflex?

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Stabilises image of moving object on retina

39
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What is pupillary reflex?

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If one eyes is illuminated, both will contract as both pretectal & Edinger Westphal nuclei receive signals from both eyes

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