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

Cutting the optic nerve of the right eye prior to reaching the optic chiasm will result in loss of vision in:

Which of the following is NOT true of rates of myopia in children?

What are the primary colors of light?

The superior colliculus sends its most direct connections to the:

Explain the difference between sensation and perception.

Why is there a blind spot in each eye?

Differentiate between the functions of blob and interblob regions of the visual cortex.

Opponent-process color coding begins in:

The part of the sensory world that stimulates a neuron is called the neuron's:

To what types of visual features do neurons in the temporal cortex respond?

To what stimulus does a complex cortical cell respond?

Describe the tectopulvinar system.

The light-sensitive surface in the back of the eye is called the:

The primary visual cortex is also known as:

What parts of the eye make up the left and right visual fields?

Magnocellular cells send their projections to layers _____, and parvocellular neurons send their projections to layers _____ of the lateral geniculate nucleus.

Parvocellular cells send their projections to layer _____ of the visual cortex.

In the optic chiasm, information from the _____ retinas crosses to the opposite side, whereas information from the _____ retinas stays on the same side.

The white part that forms the eyeball is called the:

Rods have a peak sensitivity at: