Ch 2 Flashcards
(32 cards)
Color
Amplitude and frequency of light waves
Waveforms of Color
High Frequency blue, high pitched
Low frequency= red, low pitched
Iris
Pigmented muscles
Lens
bends the light for focus
Cilary Muscles
pulls on lens
Retina
Rods and Cones (colo)
Fovea
clearest color image
highest rods in periphery
Optic Nerve
axons of ganglion cells
Amorim Cells/Bipolar Cells
switches on/off for registering a color
Opponent Process Theory
not getting color still sends signal
Optic Chiasim
In Corpus Collosum
Right visual field goes to left side brain
Later Geniculate Nucleus (LGN)
Sorts Color
Layers of an onion
Striate Cortex
layered part of occipital cortex
“coin sorter” for light to brain
Parts of occipital cortex
V1 primary sorter
V4 color sorter
Fusiform gurus
Social sorting
Achromatopsia
Can’t perceive color
Prosoma gnosis
Can’t perceive faces
Superposition
If something blocks another it’s closer
Speed of movement
Closer they are more apparent movement
Aerial perspective
Air between objects cause color change (bluish)
Vertical distance
Relation of something to horizon for distance
Hearing
Fluid changes in a fluid medium
How is hearing a sense of touch
Mechanoreceptors work by mechanically popping a drain plug that allows neurons to perceive
Pinna
Outside of air
A funnel for sound and sound location