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Lecture 8- Cortical processing of vision Flashcards

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What are the characteristics of M ganglion cells?

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  • M (parasol) ganglion cells - magni= large -large receptive fields -subserve motion detection, flicker and analysis of gross features -not good at telling what it is we are seeing
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What are the characteristics of P ganglion cells?

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-P (midget) ganglion cells -parvi= small -more numerous -visual acuity and colour vision -tells us what it is we are seeing more

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What is the visual pathway like?

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  1. Retina 2. Optic nerve 3. LGN 4. Optic radiation 5. Visual cortex
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Where do the LGN neurons project to in the V1?

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  • project to the primary visual cortex V1 -area 17 -occipital lobe around the calcarine fissure
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What is the retinotopic organization of the visual system?

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  • neighbouring cells within the retina project to neighbouring cells in the LGN and visual cortex
  • central part of vision= as far back in the occipital lobe as you can get
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What is layer 4 for in the cortex?

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-always the input area

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What are the inputs into the V1?

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  • segregation of M and P pathways
  • M cells terminate in layer 4Ca
  • P cells terminate mainly in layer 4Cb
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What are the outputs of V1?

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  • layer 3 and IVb (4B) and other cortical areas
  • layer 5: superior colliculus
  • layer 6: LGN
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How much of the cortex is involved in vision?

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  • 40%
  • the cortical visual system is composed of multiple visual areas with different functions
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What are the two parallel visual streams?

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  1. Dorsal pathway (WHERE) 2. Ventral pathway (WHAT)
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What is the dorsal pathway about?

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  • where
  • mid temporal lobe is important for detecting where an object is
  • get info from M ganglion and M LGN cells then via V1 4Ca layer to MT (medial temporal lobe)
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What is the ventral pathway about?

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  • what -inferior temporal lobe (IT) is the centre for object recognition
  • visual processing through V1, V2,V4 and IT
  • anterior and posterior subdivisions of the inferior temporal lobe
  • get info from P ganglion, P LGN cells then from V1 via the 4Cb layer
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What are the two subdivisions of inferior temporal lobe? (IT)

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-anterior and posterior -these have to do with object recognition, different aspects of it

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What is apperceptive agnosia?

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  • damage to posterior inferior temporal lobe (this is closer to V1 so less complex function)
  • lesion in regions important for integrating visual information into sensory representations of entire objects
  • ability to match an object is impaired
  • can’t copy it
  • can’t send the info from seeing to copying it
  • cannot see object parts as a unified whole
  • unable to construct sensory representation of visual stimuli
  • part of ventral (what) pathway
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What is associative agnosia?

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  • lesion in anterior inferior temporal lobe (further away from V1 so more complex function)
  • can match or copy objects but cannot identify objects
  • can copy but cannot tell you what it is
  • cannot interpret, understand or assign meaning to objects
  • sensory representation is created normally but cannot be associated with meaning, function or utility
  • part of ventral (what) pathway
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What do neurons in V4 respond to?

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-relatively insensitive to simple stimuli (e.g. orientation, colour) -they get information from the downstream areas -vast majority have large receptive fields -as the visual pathway goes further then neurons respond to ever more complicated stimuli

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What do V4 neurons encode?

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-encode complex features -e.g. some respond to curved patterns of a particular colour -some neurons encode specific information about objects e.g. faces, hands

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What do some neurons in the IT area respond to?

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-to faces -some neurons respond to front of the face -other neurons respond best to the side of the face

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What is object constancy?

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-the IT neurons are attuned to seeing faces but it does not matter which face, the subtle differences do not matter -will recognise an object as a face even when different colour, age etc.

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How is the inferior temporal lobe organised?

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-columns -arranged in columns of neurons representing the same or similar stimulus properties (side of a face next to front of the face)

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How is the primary visual cortex organised?

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-organised in columns of neurons that represent the same stimulus feature (e.g. orientation or direction of motion)

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What are the patches in the inferior temporal lobe?

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-inferior temporal lobe contains patches where each patch can be stimulated by the same object -for face recognition, 5 regions that are linked by horizontal connections. Each region encodes a different aspect about faces.

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What is object recognition associated with?

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-with visual categorization, visual memory and emotion

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What are the inputs and outputs in and from inferior temporal lobe?

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  • information from inferior temporal cortex must go into hippocampal cortex= so you can remember it, also perirhinal
  • amygdala and entorhinal cortex= emotion
  • prefrontal cortex= working memory
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What is visual memory?

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-visual experience influences the processing of incoming visual information -neurons in the inferior temporal lobe can be modified by experience -neural activity changes when sees something that has experienced before -experience is important

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How does vision and short term memory work?

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-neurons in prefrontal cortex and inferior temporal cortex continuously fire even after the visual image has been removed. This continual firing is thought to be important for maintaining short term memories. -involves the prefrontal cortex -how to get it to short memory -show object, then delay and must pick it= in delay= the neurons continue to fire that they saw the red dot, still active -but only if trained to see it -if have visual expreience then it changes the funtcion of the neurons in IT= inferior temporal lobe area

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What areas are involved in the dorsal stream (the where pathway)?

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-where pathway -V1, V3, MT, parietal lobe -links with motor system

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Where does the MT (middle temporal lobe) receive input from?

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-it is an area specialised for processing object motion -received retinotopic information from a number of cortical areas including V2 and V3 -received input from cells in layer IVB of the primary visual cortex (IVB= this is where the M ganglion plus LGN info is processed)

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What was the video about?

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-blind man walking and correctly avoiding obstacles

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What is blindsight?

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-when blind people can avoid obstacles and “see” but can’t

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What is the explanation for blindsight?

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-there is a connection from the LGN to the MT area bypassing the V1, so that connection remains even after the V1 is gone -proven that the MT cells still respond to visual stimuli after V1 destruction

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What does this show?

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