Exam 6: Vision

Which of these visual items would most likely attract the attention of a newborn baby?

What is true about cortical neurons that have become insensitive to an eye that was sutured shut during the critical period?

If both eyes of a very young kitten are sutured shut for the first few weeks:

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

What is perceived when all types of cones are simultaneously and equally active?

The blind spot in each eye is blind because:

What is the shape of the receptive field to which a simple cell in the primary visual cortex responds?

The ability that you have to determine that your eyes are moving, instead of the room that you are in, is a function of which brain area?

Parvocellular neurons most likely receive input from:

A cell that responds best to a bar of light throughout a large area of its receptive field, without a strong inhibitory area at one end is most likely a:

One might find cells that respond to the movement of an object in a specific direction in the:

What is blindsight?

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

The one additional feature that hypercomplex cells have that complex cells do not is that:

Johannes Müller held that whatever excites a particular nerve establishes a special kind of energy unique to that nerve.

Once information is sent to the secondary visual cortex, it:

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

The human condition that corresponds closest to what kittens experience when raised in an environment of only horizontal or vertical lines is:

According to the trichromatic theory of color vision:

Damage to area V4 would likely cause problems with color constancy.