Exam 5: Vision

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

 What is responsible for sharpening contrast at visual borders?

 Suppose someone has a genetic defect that prevents the formation of horizontal cells in the retina. Which visual phenomenon is most likely to be impaired?

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

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

 To see something with her best vision, Lore turned to look directly at it. This was so she could use her foveal vision.

 Tori has suffered damage to her magnocellular pathway. Now, she has problems with _____.

 The Decarlos just had a new baby. Their baby is more likely to pay attention to ____ than anything else at this time.

 Corrie is studying for a quiz on the rods and cones. She writes in her notes that _____ are more ______.

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

 A person with visual agnosia is unable to ____.

 Color constancy is the ability to ____.

 Daryl is studying for a quiz on the visual system. He records in his notes that axons from the _____ project to the ____ of the cerebral cortex.

 In what order does visual information pass through the retina?

 In the visual system, the ____ and ____ constantly feed information back and forth.

 Brittanie has had damage to the dorsal stream of her visual system. She now has trouble with _____.

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

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

 Karen has been staring at a poster that has blue stripes on it. When she quickly glances away towards the white wall, she sees what appears to be yellow stripes. What is this called and what color vision theory explains why it happens?

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