Vision 1 Flashcards

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What is light?

A

Electromagnetic radiation: ripples in an electric field .

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2
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What determines the colour of light?

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The frequency composition

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3
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How is an image produced on the retina?

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Light from source reflected off object is focused onto the retina by the cornea and the lens

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What happens to the eye for distant vision?

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Ciliary muscles relax, fibres taut and lens at a minimum

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What happens to the eye . for close vision?

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Tightening of ciliary muscles, allowing the . pliable . crystalline lens to become more rounded

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What are light rays like for distant objects?

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nearly parallel and don’t need as much refraction to bring them into focus .

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what are light rays like for close objects?

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they diverge and require more refraction for focusing

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8
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What are quick eye movements called?

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Saccades

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9
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What happens in visual transduction?

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signals carried by light waves are converted into electrical impulses in neurons: the language of the brain.

When light strikes the cells, a chemical reaction occurs that generates electrical signals that are carried to the brain via the optic nerve .

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10
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How many different types of cones are there?

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3, containing three different colour-sensitive pigments (roughly red, green, blue)

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What are rods?

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Scotopic (nightime) vision- high sensitivity allowing for vision to dim light. More convergence than the cone system, increasing sensitivity while decreasing activity.

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What are cones:

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Photopic (daytime) vision –> High acuity colour information in good lighting, only cones are found in the fovea.

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13
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What are ganglion cells?

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Optic nerve fibres

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14
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What do ganglion cells do?

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Combine the electrical outputs of the rods and cones

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15
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What is visual coding form?

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The ganglion cells combine the outputs of the rods and cones to form receptive fields with a centre-surround antagonism.

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16
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What are receptive fields?

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the region of the visual field in which light stimuli evoke responses in the ganglion cell

17
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What are neural pathways?

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  • The optic nerve carries info to the thalamus (lateral geniculate nucleus)
    • The LGN projects the primary visual cortex with different neurons carrying information about different places in the image on the retina.
18
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What is orientation sensitivity?

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In the primary visual cortex, the outputs of the neurons from the eye are combined to produce neurons that respond best to edges and bars at particular orientations.

19
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What is the primary visual cortex?

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Ø In the primary visual cortex, the shapes of objects are well represented, and the brain has already started analysing features, such as edges at particular orientations.

20
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What is perception of depth: convergence?

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When the position of the two eyes required to focus the image on the fovea is a cue to depth (works only for close objects)

21
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What is perception of depth: Stereopsis?

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The two eyes get slightly different views of the world, providing another cue to depth (used to make 3D)

22
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What is the flow of visual information?

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Primary visual cortex
Secondary visual cortex
Visual association cortex

23
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What happens to receptive fields of neurons as information flows through the hierarchy?

A

They become longer and they respond to more complex and specific stimuli

24
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According to the what vs where theory what does the dorsal stream specialise in?

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Visual Spatial perception

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According to the what vs where theory what does the ventral stream specialise in?
Visual Pattern recognition
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According to the control of behaviour vs conscious perception theory what does the dorsal stream specialise in?
Visually guided behaviour
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According to the control of behaviour vs conscious perception theory what does the ventral stream specialise in?
Visual perception