Exam 5: Vision

Infants with cataracts need to have surgical repair ____.​

Once information is sent to the secondary visual cortex,it ____.​

Which statement characterizes the fovea?​

Area ____ is particularly important for color constancy.​

Bipolar cells send their messages to ____,which are located close to the center of the eye.​

The primary visual cortex is also known as the ____.​

____ modify the ____ sensitivity to different wavelengths of light.​

Damage to the dorsal stream may interfere with ____.​

____ respond to a particular feature of a stimulus.​

Lateral inhibition is the reduction of activity in one neuron by activity in neighboring neurons.​

Once within the cerebral cortex,the magnocellular pathway continues,with a ventral branch sensitive to ____.​

In what order does visual information pass through the retina?​

Various types of ____ cells refine the input to ganglion cells,enabling them to respond specifically to shapes,movement,or other visual features.​

____ cells axons make up the optic nerve.​

Astigmatism refers to the ____.​

Why do humans perceive faint light better in the periphery of the eye?​

According to the trichromatic theory,we can perceive only three colors.​

The ability of some women to detect slightly finer discriminations of color than other women is most likely due to having ____.​

After you stare at a bright green object for a minute and look away,you see red.Which theory attempts to explain this finding?​

____ are chemicals that release energy when struck by light.​