Exam 5: Vision

Cortical neurons in the visual cortex of a kitten or a cat will lose the ability to respond to stimuli in one eye if the eye is sutured shut for ____.​

Once within the cerebral cortex,a mixed pathway of magnocellular and parvocellular cells is important for ____.​

In the human retina,messages go from receptors at the back of the eye to ____.​

Horizontal cells receive their input from ____,and they send output to ____.​

Describe the trichromatic,opponent-process,and retinex theories of color vision.​

Which cell responds most strongly to a stimulus moving perpendicular to its axis?​

The coding of visual information in your brain results in an exact duplicate of the object's shape on the surface of the cortex.​

Difficulty distinguishing between ____ and ____ is the most common form of color vision deficiency.​

The ventral stream of visual processing is important for identifying movement.​

V1 neurons would be most strongly activated by viewing ____.​

An inability to recognize objects despite otherwise satisfactory vision is called ____.​

The point in space from which light strikes the receptor is called the ____.​

According to the law of specific nerve energies,the brain tells the difference between one sensory modality and another by ____.​

Which structure has the largest receptive fields and the greatest preferential sensitivity to highly complex visual patterns,such as faces?​

Branches of the optic nerve go directly to what areas of the brain?​

To what does "shape constancy" refer?​

The retinex theory accounts for the principle of color constancy.​

In foveal vision,____.​

Damage to the ventral stream may interfere with ____.​

According to the Young-Helmholtz theory,what is the basis for color vision?​