Exam 6: Vision

 Retinal disparity decreases with the distance of the object from the viewer.

 Nyla is shedding tears because she is sad. Willow is shedding tears because she is cutting an onion. Nyla's tears contain ______ than Willow's tears.

 Horizontal cells receive input from _________ and provide output to _________.

 Courtney suffered a corneal abrasion on one eye after she fell asleep with her hard contact lenses in place. When she asked her physician what to expect from her injury, the physician told her that

 Red, or long-wavelength, cones contain which of the following photopigments?

 Sarah is in charge of lighting for a school play, and she must find the right "gel," or color filter, to produce a light with a wavelength of about 680 nm. When used on stage, the light will look

 The ventral stream projects to the

 Rods are unable to distinguish color, yet show a peak sensitivity to light in the blue-green range of the visible spectrum.

 The process of adjusting focus when looking at objects close up or at a distance is known as

 Carmella is an artist and calls her most recent work "short wavelength" because she used mostly red colors.

 Professor Crass tells her students that each human eye contains around _____ million rods.

 Professor Gasaway tells her class that humans have a blind spot in each eye because of the

 Jessica's vision is 20/20, but her friend Joshua needs to wear glasses to correct for his 20/200 vision. Without his glasses, Joshua sees as much detail in objects that are 20 feet away from him as Jessica sees in objects that are _________ feet away from her.

(see Figure 6.10) - In this image, #6 and #7 together are known as _____. They send information to _________ (#4), which, in turn, sends information to ___________ (#2).

 The amplitude of a light wave is encoded as _____________, while the wavelength of a light wave is encoded as ___________________.

 The color of an object that a human sees is a function of the wavelengths that are _________ the object.

 Elanor is unable to recognize faces, even if they should be familiar to her (e.g., her daughter). She is likely to be diagnosed with

 How many major layers are found in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)?

 Heidy is studying for a quiz and writes in her notes that amacrine cells help process

 Which of the following sets of cells forms a direct pathway for visual information and lies perpendicular to the back of the eye?