Exam 6: Sensation, Perception, and Adaptation

Rats use information from their whiskers to provide information about their environment during the darkness.

The first photoreceptors are thought to have evolved in ________.

Color saturation refers to the intensity of the light stimulus.

Which of the following lines of evidence supports the skin theory of color vision?

Approximately ________ of the human cerebral cortex is devoted to decoding light into images and complex scenes.

Tactile information arriving from the body is organized along specific ________, or body territories, each innervated by a specific spinal nerve.

The first camera-like eye is thought to have evolved in ______________.

Which of the following brain regions would be more likely activated in a person presented with a picture of a bowling pin compared to a picture of scissors?

What type of signals do bats use to detect their prey?

What is the Bruce effect?

In the visual cortex objects may be grouped into certain categories according to contextual relations based on the presence of other objects.

Hue refers to the ________ of a light stimulus.

Which of the following V1 neurons would be most likely to respond to a vertical bar-shaped visual stimulus located in a specific part of the visual field?

The ________ form synapses with the auditory nerve stretching into the cochlea.

A receptive field is defined as __________.

Sensory overload will occur without ________.

The magnocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) provide information about the ___________ of a visual stimulus.

Are the reactions of a rodent to a predator versus the reactions to the pheromones of another member of its species handled by the same olfactory circuits?

The conversion of physical energy to neural energy is called ___________.

The visual cortex located outside of the primary visual cortex is known as the prestriate cortex.