Exam 10: Vision and Visual Perception

The best explanation of visual processing is that it is:

Colorblindness has a genetic basis and is the result of ___.

Responses of ganglion cells to different colors are determined by their connections to the cones.

Prosopagnosia is a visual disorder in which people have difficulty identifying the voices of familiar individuals.

Three color receptors that responded in an opponent-process fashion had been proposed by ___;this arrangement was later verified by ___ in monkeys.

The visual photoreceptors and bipolar cells do not have action potentials but ganglion cells do.

Low-frequency visual information produces sharp edges and fine detail.

Dot is to pointillist painting as ___ is to ___.

Humans see different colors because we have different forms of:

The optic nerve is formed by axons of the ganglion cells.

Receptive fields of ganglion cells in the foveal retina are the same size as in the peripheral retina.

Compare and contrast the anatomy and functions carried out by the dorsal and ventral streams.

The parvocellular and magnocellular systems:

Which of the following would you expect of a species that is active during the night and sleeps during the day?

A retinal cell that helps combine inputs from adjacent ganglion cells is called a(n):

The trichromatic theory has difficulty explaining:

The complex cell serves as a color detector.

If illumination from a given point in space produces a neural response in a specific ganglion cell,then that point in space is in the cell's ___.

The fovea is colorblind.

The photopigment in cones is called rhodopsin.