Exam 9: How Do We Sense, Perceive, and See the World 

Someone who lacks green cones and is red-green color blind has:

On-center cells are:

In the visual cortex, the fovea has:

Retinal ganglion cells form the:

After lesions to V5, patient L. M. could no longer:

What type of vision loss would occur following damage to the right optic nerve compared with damage to the right lateral geniculate nucleus?

Compared with retinal ganglion cells, cells in V1 have _____ receptive fields.

The function of the retinohypothalamic tract is to:

What are the main properties that differentiate rods and cones? How are they distributed in the retina?

What is trichromatic color theory? At what point in the visual system is trichromatic color coding initiated?

People with myopia often have eyeballs that are _____, whereas people with hyperopia often have eyeballs that are _____.

Photoreceptors for black and white light are _____ than photoreceptors for color.

The receptive field of a lateral geniculate cell is:

Patient D. B. was able to locate spots of light presented in his blind field even though he could not see them because his:

Around 1 percent of retinal ganglion cells contain melanopsin, which forms a third type of photoreceptor in the eye and regulates pupil size, melatonin release, and:

Primate studies have shown that neurons in the temporal cortex require which of the following for their activation?

What is the function of the corpus callosum?

You are a researcher interested in understanding how single neurons might play a role in coding the identity of different faces. To examine this, you plan to do single unit recordings in monkeys. To ensure best chances of success, you decide to place your recording electrodes in area:

Cells that respond to moving bars and have a strong inhibitory area at one end of the receptive field are called:

What is the opponent theory of color vision? At what point in the visual system is opponent-process color coding initiated?