Deck 3: Sensation and Perception of Visual Signals

Question 1

Information from the temporal retina of the left eye projects to the right hemisphere.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Describe the pathway linking the eye with the primary visual cortex.

Answer 2

not answered

Question 3

What are the two modes of thalamic neuron activity?

Answer 3

Tonic and burst

Question 4

The horizontal meridian divides the visual field into upper and lower hemifields.

Question 5

What evidence is there of feedback to the primary visual cortex? Describe two things that such feedback might subserve.

Question 6

What is a hypercolumn?

Question 7

What does EEG measure? What are some benefits and limitations of the method?

Question 8

What is the inverse problem and why is it a problem for EEG?

Question 9

In cognitive neuroscience, what is meant by transduction? Describe three instances of transduction.

Question 10

Neurons in the fovea have a _____ receptive field, while those in areas outside of the fovea have a _____ receptive field.

A)Small; large
B)Large; small

Question 11

What type of LGN neuron would hyperpolarize if light is presented in its center?

Question 12

What is retinotopy?

Question 13

What evidence is there that neurons in V1 might serve as feature detectors?

Question 14

How does transcranial magnetic stimulation work?

Question 15

The spatial extent of everything you can see is referred to as _____.

Question 16

What is perception and how does it relate to attention?

Question 17

What is one of the primary functions of the burst mode of the thalamus?

Question 18

Describe anatomical differences between magnocellular and parvocellular neurons of the LGN.

Question 19

What is cortical magnification, and how does it relate to the anatomy of the eye?

Question 20

What happens at the optic chiasm?