Exam 6: Vision

An object's location, color, and movement are all processed in the same part of the visual cortex.

Night-active species are more likely than day-active species to have:

An individual suffers damage to the temporal cortex, but maintains an intact parietal cortex. This may result in an inability to:

The visual path in the parietal cortex is referred to as the:

Once within the cerebral cortex, the magnocellular pathway continues as a pathway sensitive to:

Color constancy is the ability to:

How do the receptive fields of the inferior temporal cortex compare to those of the primary visual cortex?

The receptive field of a receptor is the:

The bipolar cells send their messages to ____, located closer to the center of the eye.

If light shines in the receptive field of a bipolar cell of the visual system, what effect will it have on the activity of that cell?

In the most common form of color vision deficiency, people have difficulty distinguishing:

The optic nerve is composed of axons from which of the following cells?

The optic nerves from the right and left eye initially meet at the:

The law of specific nerve energies states that:

Light energy converts 11-cis-retinal to:

If a kitten sees alternately with only one eye one day and the other eye the next day during its critical period for visual development, what happens to its visual cortex?

Parvocellular cells respond strongly to moving stimuli and large overall patterns.

Why does the fovea provide the clearest, most detailed visual information?

One drawback to using an eye patch to help correct lazy eye is that:

Describe the trichromatic, opponent-process, and retinex theories of color vision.