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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
02/05/2013
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human eyes
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[image]
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photoreceptors
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a photosensitive cell in the retina of vertebrate eyes
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Tubes
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A type of visual system where
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Rods
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Cones
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blood vessels
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The blood vessels are the part of the circulatory system that transports blood throughout the body.
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Light
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Pinhole optics
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Camera obscura
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Refraction
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Converging prism
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Compound eye
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Simple eye
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limpit/patella, amoeba, paramecium
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Nautilus
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Copilia
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Bee, fly
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squid eyes
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eye structure
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cornea, lens, iris, pupil
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converging light
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optics of the eye
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retina
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[image]
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optic nerve
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types of cones & rods
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differences b/w cones & rods
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fovea, periphery
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blind spot
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optic disk
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adaption
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receptive field
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neurons, neuron structure
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action potential
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neuron communication
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EPSP, IPSP (excitatory, inhibitory connections)
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recording from neurons with an electrode
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excitation and inhibition counteract each other
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ganglion cells
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RF on skin
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Photoreceptor RF
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ganglion RF
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On center
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Off center
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concentric RF
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Preferred stimulus
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off response
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orientation preference
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LGN
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LGN RF
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LGN cell & RF organization
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Hermann Grid
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LGN RF explanation of Hermann Grid
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Simple cells
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Simple cell RF
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Hubel & Wiesel
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Their discovery
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Simple cell stimulus preference
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Tuning curve for orientation
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Construction of simple RF from LGN units
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Complex cells
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Preferences of complex RFs
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Endstopped/Hypercomplex cells, RFs
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Preferences of endstopped cells
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Optimal stimulus for comples, simple, hypercomplex
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White matter
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Gray matter
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cerebral cortex
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Localization of function
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Phineas Gage
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Broca
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Phrenology
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4 lobes of brain
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[image]
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Motor cortex, somatosensory cortex
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Crossover wiring
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Penfield
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Corpus collosum
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Homunculus
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Cortical magnification
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Tonotopy
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Somatotopy/motor topography
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Retinotopy
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Visual fields crossover
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Early brain surgery
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What (ventral) pathway
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Where (dorsal) pathway
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Medium scale modules; color, motion, faces
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V1
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