Exam 6: Vision

The neurons from the parvocellular and magnocellular layers of the primate lateral geniculate send their information to layer(s)______ of the striate cortex.

TMS applied to area MT produces color blindness.

Neurons within the blob portion of the cortical modules are insensitive to color.

Which of the following is true of the thalamic dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)?

Sharp edges and fine detail contain low spatial frequencies.

The extrastriate cortex is also called the prestriate or circumstriate cortex.

The visual disorder suffered by Mrs.R in the prologue is an example of visual agnosia.

Most neurons between the blob regions of a striate cortex module are sensitive to all of the following EXCEPT

The inability to perceive or identify a stimulus via a particular sensory modality is

The fovea contains of an equal mixture of cones and rods.

Another term for the primary visual cortex is

An implication of the perceptual difficulties suffered by Mrs.R is that

Explain why Goodale argues that the actual function of the dorsal stream is "how" rather than "where."

The function of the lens is to

People with the form of color blindness known as deuteranopia

Human can detect wavelengths of light between the ________ rays and the ________ rays.

Damage limited to the fusiform region of the right hemisphere would be expected to impair the recognition of

Variation in the ________ of a light will result in variation in the perception of ________.

Imagine that you are looking at a bronze cast depicting the face of Mick Jagger and a second cast showing the face of Casper the Ghost.Which of the following statements would be true of the spatial frequencies represented in these casts?

Information from the red and green ganglion cells is transmitted through the ________ layers of the LGN to the ________ of the striate cortex.