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The visual brain Flashcards

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Refractive structures of the eye

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Cornea and lens

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Problems with focusing the light through the cornea and lens

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Cataract, myopia, presbyopia

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Myopia

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Near-sightedness

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Presbyopia

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Age-related far-sightedness

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Anatomy of an eye

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Pupil, Macula lutea, Fovea centralis, Optic disc, Optic nerve

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Macula lutea

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Yellow spot, central area of the retina where the light rays are focused

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Fovea centralis

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The center of the macula, responsible for the highest visual acuity and colour

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Optic disc

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Axons of retinal ganglion cells leave the eye at the optic disc and form the optic nerve

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Retinal organization - neurons

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Retinal ganglion cells, interneurons, photoreceptors

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Retinal ganglion cells

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Receive information from the photoreceptors via the interneurons, the only retinal neurons whose axons leave the brain

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Photoreceptors

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Rods and cones, respond to reflected light and convert it into a neural signal

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Rods

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Ca. 120 million, very sensitive to light (night vision), multiple rods converge on the same interneuron

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Cones

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Ca. 6 million, less sensitive to light (day vision), 3 types of cones (red, green, blue), one-to-one convergence with an interneuron

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Saccades

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Rapid eye movement to shift visual fixation from one point to another

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Microsaccades

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A type of fixational eye movement produced during visual fixation

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Left visual hemifield

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Seen by the nasal left retina and temporal right retina

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Right visual hemifield

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Seen by the nasal right retina and temporal left retina

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Visual pathways

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Optic nerve, optic chiasm, optic tract, thalamus (LGN) and optic radiaton (Geniculocortical pathway)

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Optic nerve

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Splits into temporal and nasal branch

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Optic chiasm

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Crossover of optic nerve branches

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Optic tract

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Information from the left visual field travels in the right optic tract and information from the right visual field travels in the left optic tract

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Thalamus (LGN)

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Is the major target of the retinal ganglion cells, receives information from both eyes and sends it to V1

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Lateral geniculate nucleus

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6 layers, 2 types of cells

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Midget (parvocellular)

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Receives small details from cones, makes up 4 layers of the LGN

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Parasol (magnocellular)

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Receives information from a bigger area via rods, makes up 2 layers of the LGN

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V1

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Elementary features of objects

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Hubbel and Wiesel

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Single cell recordings in the cat visual cortex

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Neurons in V1 are selective for?

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Position and orientation of edges and direction of movement of edges (bars)

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Magnocellular pathway

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Movement and direction

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Parvocellular pathway

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Colour and orientation

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V2 and V3

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Relay of information, integration of elementary features and motion (especially V3)

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V4

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Colour perception

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V5/MT

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Motion perception

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Inferior temporal cortex (IT)

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Stronger responses to objects than non-objects

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Fusiform face area (FFA)

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Responds to faces

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Extrastriate body area (EBA)

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Responds to bodies

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Parahippocampal place are (PPA)

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Responds to places

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ERPs

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A method of measuring brain activity during cognitive processing, using EEG

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Dorsal “WHERE” pathway

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Magnocellular, carries information about motion and localization, towards parietal cortex

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Ventral “WHAT” pathway

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Parvocellular, carries information about form discrimination and object identification, towards temporal cortex

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Blindsight

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“When the blind can see”, Lawrence Weiskrantz

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Explanations for blindsight

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Subcortical visual pathway (superior colliculus), geniculo-extrastriaste pathway, residual V1 function

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Akinetopsia

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Lesion in V5/MT, loss of motion perception

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Cerebral achromatopsia

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Lesion in V4, loss of color perception

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Visual agnosia

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Lesion in the occipito-temporal cortex, results in poor object recognition

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Apperceptive agnosia

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When a person cannot name, copy, match or discriminate visual objects

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Integrative agnosia

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When a person is unable to “put the pieces together”

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Associative agnosia

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When a person is unable to access knowledge of an object’s functions and associations

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Prosopagnosia

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Lesion in FFA, loss of face recognition

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Optic ataxia

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Lesion in parietal cortex, person can identify but not grab object

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