Midterm 1 pt 2 Flashcards

(34 cards)

1
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When generally staring at the Hermann grid we don’t get the illusion of grey spots bc we are using our _____ which lacks rods

A

Fovea

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Neurons with receptive fields similar to ganglion cells in the left and right middle of the brain with 6 layers that contain topographic organization with adjacent cells having adjacent receptive fields on the retina

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Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Cells (LGN)

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2
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Cells located in V1 have rectangular shape and orientation preference but not from a particular position, will respond to both light and darkness (bc simple cells are layered)

A

Complex Cells

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Cells located in the V1 contain oriented receptive fields for elongated light or dark edges/bars; Do not have spontaneous activity

A

Simple Cells

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3
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True or False: Adjacent stuff in the world is projected onto adjacent points on the retina encoded by adjacent cells in the LGN

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True

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4
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Idea that different brain regions have different functions

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Localization of Function

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5
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Frontal left lobe area of the brain that is important for production of language

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Broca’s Area

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Cells located in V1 with orientation preference and directional motion but with limited length

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End Stopped Cells or Hypercomplex Cells

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7
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Although hypercomplex cells aren’t width specific what happens eventually as the bar lengthens beyond the cells receptive fields?

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The cells response will weaken bc objects in our environment have limited length

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Brain surgeon recognized with brain mapping by using exposed brain of alert epileptic patients with a probe to deliver stimulation and recorded different locations evoking different responses

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Penfield

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Part of the brain where LGN is located and relays to the visual cortex

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Thalamus

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9
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Left Hemisphere has neurons that control the _____ side of the body while the right hemisphere has neurons and receptive fields for the ____ side of the body

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right; left

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9
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Environment you’re looking at which is divided into left and right halves with the fovea distinguishing the center

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Visual Field

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10
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What is projected onto or near the fovea is projected to the primary visual cortex (monkey study); the fovea has a lot of cortex dedicated to it

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Cortical Magnification

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11
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The _____ visual field from both eyes projects to your left visual cortex

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right

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12
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Topographic organization where adjacent points of the retina are projected onto points that are adjacent onto the visual cortex

12
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The _____ visual field from both eyes goes to your right visual cortex

13
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If there is a stimulus in your right visual field which hemisphere of the brain does it go to?

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BOTH - Eyes do NAWT cross over the visual field does

14
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V1 is organized into a ____ like pattern made up of columns and hypercolumns

15
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Pathway in primary visual cortex concerned with “where” information such as location, action, navigating and grasping

16
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Pathway in primary visual cortex concerned with “what” information important for object recognition

17
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True or False: Each hypercolum has neurons with receptive fields corresponding to one region of the retina

18
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Each hypercolumn contains an ______ _______ ____which are further organized as having receptive fields in either the left or right eye

A

Ocular Dominance Slab

19
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The process of building a complex waveform (or maybe an image) by adding together simpler sine and cosine waves

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Fourier Synthesis

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Realistic receptive fields have extra _________ and _________ lobes that look like gabor functions which act as small patches of sine waves
Excitatory; Inhibitory
21
Building off hubel and wiesel the actual simple cell receptive field measures ______ _______ rather than just bars
Sine waves
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True or False: Any pattern (image) can be created by summing small patches of sine waves (wavelets) of many different orientations and sizes
True
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The alteration between light and dark regions over a given region of space (grating patterns)
Spatial Frequency
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Graph that indicates a cells preference in spatial frequency
Tuning Curve
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True or False: Different cells have different tuning curves for spatial frequency
True
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How much a cell responds to contrast as the difference between light and dark in grating patterns also defines an envelope level of spatial frequency tuning in all V1 cells
Contrast Sensitivity Function
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Contrast sensitivity function defines the ____ of what we can see
limit
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Younger individuals have a _______ contrast sensitivity function in comparison to older individuals
Higher
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During daytime (photopic) contrast sensitivity function is ____ while at night (scotopic) its _____
High; Low