Exam 3: Neural Processing and Perception

A receptor array in the Limulus is connected by the lateral plexus. Receptor "A" is located 5 receptors to the left of Receptor "B." What stimulation will result in the greatest firing rate recorded from "A"?

_________ refers to the fact that the response properties of neurons can be shaped by an animal's or person's perceptual experience.

The different types of cortical cells are also called

Lateral inhibition has been used to explain

"Grandmother cells" are mostly closely associated with _______ coding.

Graphing the response of a simple cortical cell results in the

The flow of information in the LGN is best described as

The Nobel Prize winners who conducted the pioneering research on the physiology of striate cortex neurons were

Human lateral inhibition is most likely accomplished by

(a) What is lateral inhibition? (b) Select either the Hermann Grid or Mach bands, and discuss how lateral inhibition accounts for the phenomenon.

Chad is reading when he sees an insect land on the corner of his book. He then makes an eye movement to look at the insect. The structure of the visual system that is most likely responsible for making this eye movement is

In the simultaneous contrast effect, gray squares of equal intensities are surrounding by either a dark background or a lighter background. The square on the dark background looks _______ than the square on the lighter background.

"How do physiological responses transform into perceptual experiences?" summarizes the

The flow of information from the ___ to the ____ is the greatest amount of information flow.

Neurons in the ________ respond to complex stimuli, but not simple stimuli such as straight lines.

______ cells fire to moving lines of a specific length or to moving corners or angles.

Neurons in the LGN have __________ receptive fields.

_________: Limulus :: ________: human retina.

An advantage of ___________coding of visual object representation is that a large number of stimuli can be signaled by a few neurons.

The difference in intensity between the light bars and the dark bars is called