Test 2: Vision

Question 1

Rods and Cones live in the:

Answer 1

Retina

Question 2

Retinal Ganglion Cells

Answer 2

receive information form bipolar cells and send to optic nerve

Question 3

Amacrine Cells

Answer 3

inhibitory neurons that affect the output of bipolar cells

Question 4

Bipolar Cells

Answer 4

carry information from photoreceptors (Rods and Cones) to Retinal Ganglion Cells

Question 5

Horizontal Cells

Answer 5

Connects photoreceptors (Rods and Cones) to Retinal Ganglion Cells

Question 6

Rods and Cones are called:

Answer 6

Photoreceptors

Question 7

Ventral Visual Cortex stream

Answer 7

What objects are (name and category)

Question 8

Dorsal Visual Cortex stream

Answer 8

Where objects are (and how to use them)

Question 9

Retintropic Organization:

Answer 9

each neuron responds to a specific area of the visual field.

Question 10

A person neglects half of the world due to damage in the right parietal lobe:

Answer 10

Hemineglect

Question 11

Damage to both sides of the parietal lobe, can’t see the big picture, only small details:

Answer 11

Balint’s Syndrome

Question 12

Can only focus on a single object at a time:

Answer 12

Simultagnosia

Question 13

Ventral Stream Damage means:

Answer 13

can pick up objects but cant “see them”

Question 14

Dorsal Stream Damage means:

Answer 14

can see objects, but cant figure out where they are

Question 15

Bottom Up Processing

Answer 15

energy from the world finds its way up to the brain and shapes our perception.

Question 16

Top Down Processing

Answer 16

existing, stored information in the brain affects the way we perceive the world.

Question 17

Overt Attention:

Answer 17

Paying attention to something you’re looking at

Question 18

Covert Attention:

Answer 18

Paying attention to something you’re not looking at

Question 19

Prosopagnosia

Answer 19

Face Blindness

Question 20

Anton’s Syndrome:

Answer 20

Person is blind, but doesn’t know it!

Question 21

Anterior Usually means vision is:

Answer 21

Complex

Question 22

Posterior Usually means vision is:

Answer 22

Simple