PP Ch 5 Exam

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

False

Johannes Muller held that whatever excites a particular nerve establishes a special kinds of energy unique to that nerve

True

Simple cells are found exclusively in the primary visual cortex.

True

The primary visual cortex sends its information to

area V2

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

bar in a particular orientation

Parvocellular neurons most likely receive input from ____.

bipolar cells that receive input from cones

Although he has been blind since birth, Aiden can experience - which is -

blindsight, ability to respond in limited ways to visual information without perceiving it consciously

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

complex

Brittanie has had damage to the dorsal stream of her visual system. She now has trouble with _____.

describing what is seen

The Decarlos just had a new baby, their baby is more likely to pay attention to -

faces

The opponent process theory explains why Dania's dress still looks blue even after she dims the light

false

When Lleen see something that looks like a face she has activation of her

fusiform gyrus

--- cells make up the optic nerve

ganglion

The one additional feature that hypercomplex cells have that complex cells do not is that hypercomplex cells ____.​

have a strong inhibitory area at one end of its receptive field

Professor Woodby is lecturing about the fovea. Which is she most likely to say?

it has the greatest perception of detail

The optic nerve sends most of its information to the - of the -

lateral geniculate nucleus, thalamus

As a human, Lino is really good at detecting motion. This is because of his _____.

magnocellular neurons in the periphery

Once information is sent to the secondary visual cortex it:

may return to the primary visual cortex

Cells in the inferior temporal cortex that are sensitive to a particular shape are also likely to respond to the shape's ____.​

mirror-reversal

-- are chemicals that release energy when struck by light

photopigments

bipolar cells receive input from --- and they send messages on to

photoreceptors, ganglion cells

The receptive field of a receptor is the ---

point in space from which light strikes the receptor

Light enters the eye through an opening in the center of the iris called

pupil

In addition to having difficulty recognizing faces, people with prosopagnosia may have difficulty____.​

recognizing different kinds of plants and animals

Stereoscopic depth perception requires the brain to detect:

retinal disparity

In order to be able to see things in her periphery, Pauline's - needs to be activated

rods

Horizontal cells receive their input from - and send their output to

rods and cones, bipolar cells

Tori has suffered damage to her magnocellular pathway. Now, she has problems with _____.

seeing things in motion

The primary visual cortex is also known as the

striate cortex

The fact that all colors on older televisions were created by combining only three different colors of light supports--- theory of vision

trichromatic


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