It's In Your Eyes
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100
This protective covering of the eye has a lot of pain receptors.
What is the Cornea?
100
These cells detect photons
What are Photoreceptors?
100
These photoreceptors respond to low light and motion, and are found mostly in the retinal periphery.
What are Rods?
100
This pathway is involved in object and visual identification and recognition.
What is the Ventral Stream (or the "What Pathway")?
200
This is the hole in the center of the eye where photons enter.
What is the Pupil?
200
These cells transmit messages from photoreceptors to ganglion cells?
What are Bipolar cells?
200
These photoreceptors mediate color vision in more intense light, are made of blue, green, and red types, and are mostly located in the fovea.
What are Cones?
200
This pathway is involved with processing the object's spatial location relative to the viewer and with speech repetition.
What is the Dorsal Stream (or, "Where Pathway")?
300
This colored part of the eye is attached to muscles and determines how much light enters.
What is the Iris?
300
These cells project to the brain and their axons form the optic nerve.
What are Ganglion cells?
300
This small dip in the retina houses the largest number of cones, and is used for high resolution and low sensitivity vision.
What is the Fovea?
300
This neurological disorder is characterized by the inability to recognize faces
What is Prosopagnosia
400
This portion of the eye focuses the image on the retina.
What is the Lens?
400
These cells run horizontally at the level of photoreceptors and bipolar cells.
What are Horizontal cells?
400
This area of the retina is high sensitivity and low resolution
What is the Periphery?
400
These cells collect info from a wider area, mostly in the periphery. Good motion detection, high sensitivity and low acuity.
What are M Ganglion Cells?
500
This part of the eye is where photoreceptors are found.
What is the Retina?
500
These cells run horizontally at the level of bipolar and ganglion cells.
What are Amacrine cells?
500
This nerve carries information from the retina to the brain.
What is the Optic Nerve (or Cranial Nerve II)?
500
These cells are concentrated in the fovea, they have high acuity, low sensitivity, and contribute to color vision.
What are P Cells?
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