Exam 5: Vision

Once within the cerebral cortex,the magnocellular pathway continues,with a dorsal branch important for ____.​

Amacrine cells refine the input to ganglion cells,enabling them to respond specifically to shapes, movement,or other visual features.​

Blindsight refers to ____.​

The enhancement of contrast at the edge of an object is the result of ____.​

Being able to detect fine details of a color painting would depend most on which type of ganglion cells?​

Light energy converts 11-cis-retinal to ____.​

Infants are born with the ability to control their visual attention.​

The optic nerve is composed of axons from which kind of cell?​

A complex cell responds to a pattern of light in a particular orientation.​

The most common form of color vision deficiency is due to ____.​

Peripheral vision mainly depends upon ____.​

Damage to the magnocellular pathway would most likely lead to the loss of ____.​

Light from the right half of the world strikes which part of the retina?​

Rods are to ____ as cones are to ____.​

Cutting the left optic nerve in front of the optic chiasm would result in blindness in the ____.​

Which receptors are responsible for the perception of color?​

Which theory can best explain why people that are wearing yellow-colored glasses can still identify the color of a green apple?​

In addition to having difficulty recognizing faces,people with prosopagnosia may have difficulty____.​

Describe the functional and anatomic differences between rods and cones.​

At the level of rods and cones,the ____ theory seems to fit best,while at the level of the bipolar cells,the ____ theory seems to fit best.​