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Test 2 Flashcards

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Sensory transduction

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The translation of sensory input into electrical signals the brain can understand

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Labeled lines

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Each nerve input to the brain reports only a particular type of information

Ex) vibration, pressure, temp etc

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Receptive fields

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A region where a stimulus will change the neuron’s firing rate

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Size of receptive field

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Large receptive field= less sensitivity

Small receptive field = more sensitivity

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Rate coding

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Firing of AP recorded as #AP/sec

Codes intensity

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Range fractionation

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Divides multiple receptors of a certain sensory neuron based on intensity

Has min and max firing rate

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Phasic receptors

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Decrease frequency of AP after intital stimulation

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Adaptation

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Loss of receptor sensitivity as stimulation is maintained

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Tonic receptors

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Show no decline or slow decline in AP frequency (I.e. Pain, proprioceptor)

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Center Modulation of Sensory Information

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The process in which higher brain centers, such as cortex and thalamus, suppress some sources of sensory information and amplify others

-“top-down” influences

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Polymodal neurons

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A neuron where information from more than one sensory system converges

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Synesthesia

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A condition in which stimulation in one sensory pathway evokes an involuntary experience in a second sensory pathway

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Graphemes color synesthesia

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See colors associated with numbers

*convergence of different sensory systems allows the systems to interact

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Humunculus

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The size of each body part reflects the proportion of S1 devoted to that part

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Motor system

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Biggest areas: hands, lips and tongue

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Sensory system

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Biggest areas: hand, thumb, lips

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Nociceptors

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A receptor that responds to stimuli that produce tissue damage or pose the threat of damage

Pain receptor

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Delta fibers

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Large diameter, myelinated and thus fast conducting axon

  • transmits pain info
  • phasic receptors
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C fibers

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A small, unmyelinated and thus conduct pain info slowly and adapts slowly

-tonic receptor

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Substance P

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A peptide transmitter that selectively boosts pain signals and remodels pain pathway neurons

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Cingulate Cortex

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Region of medial cerebral cortex that lies dorsal to the corpus callosum

-integrates pain info

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Analgesic drugs

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Opiate drugs bind to specific receptors in the brain that decrease pain

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TENS

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Mild electrical stimulation to nerves around the injury sites to relieve pain

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Placebo effect

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Relief of a symptom that results from a treatment known to be ineffective

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Acupuncture

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Insertion of needles at designated points on the skin to alleviate pain or neurological malfunction

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Extreme stress

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Can produce significant analgesia

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Proprioception

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Body sense; info about position and movement of the body

-tonic receptors

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Motoneuron

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A neuron that transmits neural messages to muscles or glands

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Neuromuscular junction

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Region where the motoneuron terminal meets the adjoining muscle fiber to transmit its message

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Pyramidal (corticospinal) system

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Forms pyramidal tract

From frontal cortex (pre-central gyrus) to brain stem to spinal cord

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Primary motor cortex (M1)

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Executive region for the initiation of movement

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Pre Central gyrus

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The strip of frontal cortex that is crucial for motor control

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M1 neurons

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Most encode movements in a particular direction rather than a specific muscle contraction

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SMA (supplementary motor cortex)

Premotor cortex

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Code behaviors involving multiple muscles rather than specific muscle movements

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Extrapyramidal System

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Basal ganglia and cerebellum

-adjust the commands received from the other parts of the motor control system

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Ataxia

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Loss if voluntary muscle control and balance

-damage to extrapyramidal system (cerebellum)

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Diseases of Basal Ganglia

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Parkinson’s disease

Huntington’s disease

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Parkinson’s disease

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  • hypokinesia (less mov’t)
  • lack of spontaneous movements
  • bradykinesia-slowing of movement
  • rigidity and postural instability
  • tremor when stationary (resting tremor)
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Huntington’s disease

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Hyperkinesia (more mov’t)

  • excess spontaneous movement
  • writing, dance like movements (chorea)
  • also affects mood and cognition
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Sound waves

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Changes in air pressure

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Compression

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Higher pressure

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42
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Rarefaction

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Lower pressure

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Amplitude (Intensity) = Loudness

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Measured as sound pressure
# of molecules measured in dB
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Frequency = Pitch

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The number of cycles per second in a soundwave measured in hertz
-speed of compression/rarefaction.

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Timbre = Complexity

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Complexity of a sound wave

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46
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Pure tone

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Tone with only a single frequency of vibration

-rare in real world

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47
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Fundamental frequency

Basic

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Predominant frequency of an auditory tone

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48
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Harmonies

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Multiples of the fundamental

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49
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Transduction of sound

1. Cochlea

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Cochlea: fluid filled, cooked chambers where mechanical vibrations of the middle ear are transfixed into electrical signals

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50
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2.

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Traveling wave causes basilar (base) membrane to move

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3.

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When the basilar membrane vibrates, Inner Hair Cells (IHC) bounce up against the tectorial (roof) membrane and stimulates stereocilia

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4.

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Vibration pops be “tip links” allowing k+ and ca2+ to rich into the stereocilia and depolarize the cell

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5.

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Depolarization initiates AP on the spiral ganglion cells, whose axons form the vestibulocochlear nerve

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54
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Inner hair cells

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  • bottom up = afferent
  • detect pitch and intensity
  • 95% of al fibers provide info to brain
  • top down = efferent
  • control responsiveness of IHC
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Outer Hair Cells

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  • top down = efferent
  • change length of cell to change stiffness of basilar membrane in certain parts of cochlea–sharpens tuning of task-relevant frequencies
  • bottom up = afferent
  • convey info back to brain about how still the adult membrane is
56
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Place coding

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Discrimination based on location

  • base (stiff) - increase frequencies = more energy
  • apex (flexible) - decrease frequencies = less energy
57
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Tonotpic organization

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Neurons are arranged as a map of stimulus frequency

-present from cochlea to A1

58
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Temporal coding

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Discrimination based on rate of firing

-most evident at lower frequencies (max. = 4000 hz)

59
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Sound signal (PNS-- CNS)
1.
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Cochlear nucleus - receives info from auditory hair cells

60
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  1. Superior olivary nucleus
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Inputs from one ear bisect and go to both left and right sides
-provides 1st binaural (two-ear) analysis of auditory info

61
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  1. Midbrain
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Inferior colliculus

62
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  1. Thalamus
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Medical geniculate nucleus

63
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Primary Auditory Cortex (A1)

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Core—processes complex sounds

-cells respond to only pure tones and very narrow coding

64
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Secondary auditory cortex (A2)

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Belt

  • Cells respond to broader range of frequencies
  • responds more to complex sounds like speech perception
65
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Speech perception

-left hemisphere

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dominant for word perception

66
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Pure word deafness

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Damage to left hemisphere

- inability to hear words, but other sounds like environmental and music sounds can be detected

67
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Prosody

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Perception of emotional tone of voice aspects of language

Ex) linguistic prosody–question vs. statement
Emotional prosody–sad, happy

68
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Right hemisphere

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Contributes to prosody

69
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Music perception

Right hemisphere

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Musical pitch/ melody

70
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Amusia

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Disorder characterized by the inability to discern tunes accurately or to sing

71
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“Tone-deaf” ppl

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  • congenital amusia

- have irregularities in right-hemisphere auditory regions

72
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Left hemisphere

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Musical rhythm/timing

  • tempo of the beats (rhythm)
  • way that beats are grouped (meter)
73
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Localizing sound

-where pathway

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From posterior A1 to parietal cortex

74
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Interaural differences

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Code horizontal location (left to right)

75
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Interaural latency (time) differences

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Difference between the two ears in the time of sound arrival
- one ear is closer to localize a sound source

76
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Interaural intensity (loudness) differences

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A perceived difference in loud news btwn two ears

77
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Sound shadow

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Where sound waves fail to propagate

-more pronounced for higher frequencies

78
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Vertical localization

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Spectral filtering by shape of ear

79
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Spectral filtering

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Process where hills and valleys of ear alter the amplitude of some, not all frequencies in a sound

  • brain develops a model of how sounds are distorted by ones ear and head
    • can code left/right and up/down
80
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Visual fields

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Portion of space where objects are visible while holding a steady fixation in one direction

81
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Binocular zone

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Light enters both eyes

82
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Monocular zones

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Light only enters one eye

Ex) left zone to left eye only

83
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Nasal retina

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Part of eye closer to nose

-axons from here CROSS at the optic chiasm

84
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Temporal retina

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Part of eye closer to the ear

-axons continue on to optic tract on same side –do not cross

85
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Optic chiasm

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The point at which parts of the optic. We’ve cross from PNS to CNS

86
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Optic tract

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Name of optic nerve in CNS

87
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Left optic tract

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Corresponds to Right visual field (info from nasal retina)

88
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Right optic tract

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Corresponds to left visual field

89
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Photopic system

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Operates at higher levels of light, sensitive to color and involves cones

90
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Scotopic system

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Operates at low levels of light, and involves rods

91
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Retina

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Transfixed photons to electrical signals and sends it to the CNS

92
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Ganglion cell layer

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  • top layer of cells—axons make up the optic nerve

- ONLY cells that generate APs

93
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Bipolar cells

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Mid layer of bipolar cells ( one axon and one dendrite)

-Conduct LP

94
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Photoreceptor Cell layer

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Back of the eye–bottom layer

  • Rods and cones
  • transduce light into electrical signals
95
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Cones

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  • functions best in bright light
  • 3 types: range provides color vision
  • 4 million
  • high acuity = smaller receptive field
96
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Rods

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Excellent light sensitivity

  • functions in low lights
  • 1 type: only responsive to blue green light
  • 100 million
  • low acuity = larger receptive field
99
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Direction of light

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Ganglion cells to photoreceptors

100
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Direction of neural signal

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From photoreceptors to ganglion cells

101
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Special cells

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Connect cells within a layer

102
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Horizontal cells

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Contacts both photoreceptors and bipolar cells

103
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Amacrine cells

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Contacts both bipolar and ganglion cells

-significant in inhibiting interactions within the retina

104
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Lateral Inhibition

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When stimulation of a receptor cell results in inhibition of info of neighboring receptor cells
Ex) special cells

-important role In Edge detection

105
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Edge detection

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Increase contrast between 2 areas of differing brightness

106
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Color vision

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Photons vibrate as they travel across space, creating a wave

  • different cones responds to different light frequencies
    • each has a peak and wide distribution
107
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Fine grained color discrimination

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Happens through tuning in Cortex

108
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Fovea

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Center region of retina

  • highest visual acuity Bc it is where small cones are densely packed
  • highest number of cones
  • only place where light passes directly to receptors w/o going through other layers ( less diffusion of light)
109
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Blind spot

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Portion of visual field where light falls on the optic disc

110
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Convergence

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Allows a neuron to receive input from multiple neurons in a network

111
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In the retina

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Trade off btwn acuity and light sensitivity = function of convergence

112
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Cones = low convergence

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One cone conveys info to one ganglion cell (1:1)

-1:1 relation allows cell to know exactly where light is

113
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Rods= high convergence

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One ganglion cell receives input from multiple rods
-Bc so many rods sending info, cell cannot tell the difference of where light is coming from

-works well in low light Bc of higher sensitivity to light Bc of summation of LP

114
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Center-surround receptive fields

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Found throughout the early pets of the visual system —reina (bipolar and ganglion cells) and LGN
Center = on
Surround = off

115
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In receptive fields of V1

Simple cells

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Respond to a bar of light in a particular orientation

-built up from “convergence” across multiple center-surround receptive fields of early stages: retina and LGN

116
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Complex cells

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Respond to bars of light moving in a particular direction

-results from convergence of multiple simple cells

117
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In the visual ventral system

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-Neurons respond to more complex shapes
- receptive fields of neurons increase in size —-care less about where object is in space
(Bc of convergence trade off)

118
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Retinogeniculostriate pathway = ventral stream

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90% of axons from Retina—LGN (thalamus)—V1 (priestly and temporal cortex)

  • most fovea vision goes to V1
  • conscious visual processing
119
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Cortical blindness

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Total or partial loss of vision in a normal appearing eye

-damage to LGN and V1

120
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Hemianopia

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Can see only from one eye

121
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Blindsight

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No conscious awareness of visual input, but shoes unconscious responses to visual input

-result of dorsal stream

122
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Blindsight ppl

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  • can guess better than chance WHERE a stimulus is in the kind area and in what direction it’s moving
  • can guess better than chance simple shape judgments about WHAT something is in blind field
123
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Retinocollicular pathway = dorsal stream

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10% of axons from Retina–superior colliculus–thalamus–posterior parietal cortex

  • skips V1 and goes to parietal
  • does NOT require consciousness
124
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Visual divide and conquer

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Perception of color, motion and form are processed through separate visual pathways

125
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Achromatopsia

-damage in V4

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Lack of color vision, can’t perceive color; cannot see, dream or imagine in color, impairment of complex shape perception

Intact: motion perception and basic form

126
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V4

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Essential for color constancy

Damaged in achromatopsia

127
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Color constancy

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Ensures that the perceived color of objects remains relatively constant under varying illumination conditions

128
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Akinetopsia

Damage in V5/MT (dorsal stream)

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Absence of motion perception; cannot see fast motion

Intact: performing colors and recognizing objects

129
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Visual form agnosia

Damage to ventral stream

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Inability to create a unified mental representation of the structure/ form of an object
-cannot visually recognize it copy while objects

Intact: normal color, motion perception, perception of dots and lines

130
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Visuomotor abilities

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Intact after ventral stream damage

  • can’t recognize objects, but can form appropriate grip aperture
  • don’t know what, but know where it is and how to use it
131
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Perception of action pathway

Dorsal steam

A

Codes relationship of world relative to you

-tells you where things are in space

132
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Optic ataxia

Damage to dorsal stream

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Inability to reach toward objects under visual guidance

133
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Perceptual representations in ventral steam

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Organized in “modular” or domain-specific way

134
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Category-specific deficit

Alexia

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Deficit in identifying written words

135
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Prosopagnosia

Damage to right hemisphere FFA (fusiform face area) or both

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Deficit in recognizing familiar faces –may not even recognize own face

  • know what a face is
  • congenital or Bc of brain damage
136
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Optic disc

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Where retina has a devoid of receptors Bc ganglion axons and blood vessels exit the eye there

137
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Don’t notice blind spot

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Bc of top down guessing. Where brain fills in the missing information

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