Exam 6: Vision

 The cell bodies of bipolar, amacrine, and horizontal cells are located in the _________ layer.

 If in fact tetrachromats, or people with four color photopigments, exist, what can we conclude about their sex?

 The dendrites of ganglion cells form connections with the amacrine and bipolar cells in the _________ layer.

 Rhodopsin, the photopigment found in rods, has two parts, opsin and ________.

 The periphery of the retina is superior to the center for viewing

 When a rod absorbs a photon of light, retinal changes from the

 Photons

 Photoreceptors

 When looking at faces, Kyle's fusiform face area, located in Area ____, is very responsive.

 A visual interneuron's receptive field is defined as the

 Cherise has prosopagnosia. Her biggest struggle is a clouding of both of her lenses.

 Professor Hama tells her class that the primary visual cortex is also called the _____ cortex and is found in the _____ cortex.

 The process of translating sensory information into action potentials is known as

 Researchers are training pigeons to peck to receive food pellets when they see gratings but withhold their pecks to receive pellets when they see a uniform gray circle. This procedure will help the researchers determine

 In her biology lab, Meredith performed a dissection that demonstrated that most of the axons from the optic nerve travel to the

 Bipolar cells receive input from

 Luisa has cataracts that are caused because her

 Which of the following groups of cells respond to input from only one eye?

 The dorsal stream projects to the

 At the level of the LGN, input from the two eyes in humans is