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Vision 2.2 [HY] Flashcards

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What’s Sclera?

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White of the eye

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Choroidal vessels

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two sets of blood vessels, supplied the eye with nutrients

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Retina Vessels

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complex intermingling
of blood vessels between the sclera and the retina

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Retina

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contains actual photoreceptors that transduce light into electrical information the brain can process.

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Cornea

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clear, domelike window in the front of the eye, which gathers and focuses the incoming light

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Anterior Chamber

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front of the eye, lies in front of the iris

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Posterior Chamber

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Between the iris and the lens

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Iris

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  • colored part of the eye
  • Two Muscles: dilator pupillae, which opens the pupil under sympathetic stimulation & constrictor pupillae, which constricts the pupil under
    parasympathetic stimulation
  • continuous with the choroid
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Choroid

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vascular layer of connective tissue that surrounds and provides nourishment to the retina.

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Ciliary Body

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produces the aqueous humor that bathes the front part of the eye before draining into the canal of Schlemm

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Lens

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Lies right behind the iris and helps control the refraction of the incoming light.

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Ciliary Muscle

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As the muscle contracts, it pulls on the suspensory ligaments and changes the shape of the lens to focus on an image as the distance varies (called accomodation)

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Vitreous Humor

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transparent gel that supports the retina

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Retina

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  • Back of the eye and is like a screen consisting of neural
    elements and blood vessels. Its function is to convert incoming photons of light to electrical signals.
  • Part of CNS
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Duplicity theory of vision

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retina contains two kinds of
photoreceptors (Cones and Rods)

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Cones

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  • Color vision
  • Sense fine details
  • requires far more light b/c each cone responds only to certain wavelengths of light
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Rods

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  • more functional than cones
  • highly sensitive to photons
  • easier to stimulate than a cone cell
  • can be stimulated by light of any color (unlike cones)
  • Only sense light and dark
  • Not great for detecting fine details b/c spread over a much larger area of the retina
  • More rods than cones
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Rhodopsin

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  • Reason for sensitivity of rods
  • all rods contain only a single pigment type
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Macula

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  • Central section of the retina
  • has a high concentration of cones
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Fovea

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  • the centermost region of the macula
  • contains only cones
  • Further away from fovea, rod concentration increases and cone decreases
  • Where visual acuity is best
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Optic Disk

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  • devoid of photoreceptors
  • gives rise to a blind spot
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Bipolar Cells

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  • Where rods and cones synapse directly & highlight gradients between adjacent rods or cones
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How does photon travel in eye?

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Rods & Cones in back of the eye -> action potentials Bipolar Cells -> Ganglion Cells -> Optic Nerve

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Resolution relationship with ganglion

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  • More receptors on one ganglion the lower the resolution
  • Fewer cones on single ganglion cell than rods
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Amacrine and Horizontal Cells

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  • receive input from multiple retinal cells in the same area before the information is
    passed on to ganglion cells.
  • accentuate slight differences between the visual information in each bipolar
    cell
  • increase our perception of contrasts
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Visual Pathway

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  • Visual information is processed contralaterally
  • Nasal fibers cross at optic chiasm
  • the temporal field of each eye
    stimulates the nasal fibers of each eye
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LGN of thalamus

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some visual signals synapse with nerves that then pass through radiations in the temporal and parietal lobes to the visual cortex
- Has Parvo and Magnocellular cells

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Superior Colliculi

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  • When nerve fibers skip the thalamus, go to Superior Colliculi in midbrain
  • control some reflexive responses to visual stimuli and reflexive eye movements.
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Parallel Processing

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  • brain’s ability to analyze information regarding color, form, motion, and depth simultaneously
  • i.e. use independent pathways in the brain
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Form

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  • Object and its boundaries
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Parvocellular Cells

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  • In LGN
  • Where neurons carrying information from the fovea and surrounding central portion of the retina synapse
  • High spatial resolution: detect very fine detail
  • Low Temporal resolution
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Temporal Resolution

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Ability to detect fast/moving objects

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Magnocellular Cells

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  • In LGN
  • high temporal resolution
  • Good for detecting motion
  • In periphery
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Binocular Neurons

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responsible for comparing the inputs to each hemisphere and detecting these differences.

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Feature Detectors

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  • detects a very particular, individual feature of an
    object in the visual field
  • Activated in parallel

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