Which methods are used to measure the quantitative relationship between the stimulus and perception?
100
Where the optic nerve leaves the eye.
Where is the blind spot located?
100
Hermann Grid and Mach bands, and the Chevreul illusion
Which illusions were explained previously with lateral inhibion concept?
100
fMRI
What is a brain imaging technique that tracks blood flow in the brain using magnetic fields?
200
Transduction
The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neurons is called _____.
200
Absolute threshold
What is the smallest stimulus level that can just be detected?
200
Lens
What focuses the light on the retina?
200
Receptive field.
What is an area on the retina that influences the firing rate of the neuron?
200
Cortical magnification
What is the name of the effect when a small area of the fovea accounts for a large area on the cortex?
300
Bottom-up
Which type of processing is based on the stimuli reaching the receptors.
300
Difference threshold
What is smallest difference between two stimuli that enables us to tell the difference between them?
300
The ciliary muscles.
What changes the shape of the lens increasing focus power?
300
Center-surround receptive field.
What is the type of receptive field in optic fibre and LGN?
300
A location column can contain many orientation columns
What type of cortical column is bigger location or orientation?
400
Between 400 and 700 nm within the electromagnetic spectrum
What is the visible light?
400
Averaging the results of a number of trials while measuring thresholds.
How do psychophysical methods take into account the variability of human perception?
400
Outer segments of the visual receptors
Where do we find visual pigment molecules within the visual receptors?
400
Hubel and Wiesel
Who were the Nobel Prize winners who conducted the pioneering research on the physiology of visual (striate) cortex neurons?
400
Difficulty discriminating between objects
What was the difficulty in Ungerleider and Mishkin’s (1982) research in monkeys who had had their temporal lobes removed?
500
Activating sensory receptors
What is the only way to see, hear, taste, smell, and feel what you want to experience?
500
Signal Detection theory
What is a theory that discerns between patterns of signal and noise. It measures decision making in the presence of uncertainty
500
Presbiopia
What is the process of lens hardening that happens with age?
500
Specificity coding
In which type of coding a particular neuron might respond to Jason’s face, another particular neuron to Sam’s face, and another particular neuron to Bill’s face?
500
Pictures of furnished and empty rooms and houses.
What is the type of stimuli that activates PPA area?