Deck 6: The Art of Seeing

Question 1

Which of the following is not a benefit of lateral inhibition?

A) The improvement of neural efficiency in representing the visual world
B) The ability to combine information from uniform regions of a scene
C) The consistent maintenance of brain response under different lighting conditions
D) The enhancement of the representation of edges

Answer 1

B

Question 2

How does the visual system differ from a camera?

A) A picture from a camera does not encompass the entire visual field
B) Visual perception is only in full color and high resolution at the center of gaze
C) Visual perception does not fill in missing details
D) The visual system does not work differently than the picture captured by a camera

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Why is there no gap in our vision where our blind spot is located?

A) the visual system fills in missing information based on the surround
B) there are still a few photoreceptors at the blind spot
C) the blind spot occurs far in the periphery, to which we normally do not pay attention
D) there is a small visual gap, but it is present from birth, and we have learned to ignore it

Answer 3

A

Question 4

How do the receptive fields in extrastriate non-primary) visual cortex compare to the primary visual area V1?

A) They have smaller receptive fields that are sensitive to more complex features
B) They have larger receptive fields that are sensitive to more complex features
C) They have smaller receptive fields that are sensitive to simpler features
D) They have larger receptive fields that are sensitive to simpler features

Question 5

The Gestalt principles of perception include

A) grouping by similarity, good continuation, and proximity
B) grouping by similarity, good exposure, and shared features
C) grouping by shared features, receptive fields, and visual field
D) grouping by color, location, and size

Question 6

A key difference between striate and extrastriate visual cortex is

A) striate cortex includes the primary visual area, while extrastriate cortex includes visual areas MT, V4 and others
B) striate cortex has cells with large receptive fields while extrastriate cortex has more center-surround fields
C) striate cortex includes area MT motion) while extrastriate cortex includes the fusiform face area
D) all of the above

Question 7

John is a patient in a neurological clinic who can only identify his mother by her voice, even though he scores well on a standard visual acuity test. John may be suffering from .

A) apperceptive agnosia
B) associative agnosia
C) prosopagnosia
D) optic ataxia

Question 8

The central part of the retina that we "aim" directly at objects to perceive their fine details is called

A) optic sight
B) pupil
C) fovea
D) visual array

Question 9

The ________ visual stream in the cortex is thought to represent 'what' information, while the _______ visual stream represents 'where' information.

A) dorsal, ventral
B) ventral, dorsal,
C) medial, lateral
D) striate, extrastriate

Question 10

Which of the following is not true about the retina?

A) cones can be found in the fovea but not the periphery of the retina
B) rods can be found in the periphery but not the fovea
C) four different types of photopigments can be found in the photoreceptors of the eye
D) no photoreceptors are located where the optic nerve meets the eyeball

Question 11

Information from the will go to the primary visual cortex in the right hemisphere.

A) right eye
B) left eye
C) right visual field
D) left visual field

Question 12

What is the function of the fovea?

A) to perceive coarse visual details
B) to perceive fine visual details
C) to detect visual motion
D) all of the above

Question 13

When two very different visual stimuli are presented simultaneously to the two eyes, the perceptual phenomenon is called

A) visual object agnosia
B) binocular rivalry
C) blindsight
D) associative agnosia

Question 14

Retinal ganglion cells have receptive fields that respond differently to features in the center than to the area that encloses it

A) interior-exterior
B) center-surround
C) middle-edge
D) core-border

Question 15

The fusiform face area FFA) and the parahippocampal place area PPA) differ in that

A) the FFA is tuned to fine-grained details while the PPA is sensitive to coarse-grained aspects of visual stimuli
B) the FFA responds more to faces while the PPA responds more to places
C) the FFA is in the inferior temporal lobe while the PPA is in the superior parietal lobe
D) the FFA is in the ventral processing stream while the PPA is in the dorsal stream

Question 16

An individual who has trouble recognizing a picture of the Grand Canyon, despite going there on several family vacations, might have damage to which cortical area?

A) primary visual cortex
B) lateral occipital complex
C) fusiform face area
D) parahippocampal place area