Week 5 +6 attention and consciousness Flashcards
Colour perception is low in the peripheral VF, the theory proposing that this is due to what we see being an illusion that our cognition makes up because we can’t actually see any colour is the ________ theory
Illusionism
Incorrect introspection is a method of explaining________and proposes______
Explains peripheral colour perception;
says that in peripheral vision we ‘fill in the blanks’ based on experience and prediction
Compare attention theory and sparse view theory of peripheral vision
Attention - we only SEE what we attend to
Sparse view - we see much less than we think we can see
Ware can detect motion _____ than colour in peripheral vision
MOTION BETTER but both bad
the visual field refers to the area________
is the side of vision relative to the focal point
the LGN is located ________ and receives input from the ______
in the THALAMUS, gets input from OPTIC NERVE
Information from the RIGHT hemifield is processed in the ______LGN and the _____lobe
right hemifield = right LGN and LEFT lobe
information from the CONTRAlateral eye goes to _____ LGN layers
1,4,6
information from the IPSIlateral eye goes to______
2,3,5 layers
Which feature is associated with awareness in blind sight, whereas conscious vision is processed in _____
Superior colliculus - BS
LGN - normal sight
Inattention and neglect is associated with_______ lobe
Parietal
Inferotemporal CX is associated with recognition of ________
Faces, places, people
Collumnar organisation in the cortex enables ID of one feature ________
FALSE - can encode for mult features i.e. orientation, direction of mvmt
the blind spot contains info from both eyes and has standard columnar organisation in the LGN (T/F)
FALSE - only 1 eye info and DOES NIT HAVE columnaro rganisation in LGN
Visual eccentricity is when _______
as the distance from the fovea ICNREASES, visual acuity + CORTICAL PROJECTION decreases
An essential node is _______
Cortical structure, that if removed will remove all conscious experience OF THAT TYPE i.e. vision, aud etc.,
Motion perception occurs in _________
V5 –> meddle temporal lobe
MTL is in the _________ and functions to______
in the FOREBRAIN memory consolidation, emotional processing
MTL structures include
Amygdala, hipocampus, parahippocampal gyrus