Eye
The adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters.
What is the pupil?
The region of the cerebral cortex that receives most of the information from the visual system; located in the occipital lobe.
What is the Primary visual cortex? (V1)
Cells that detect light.
What are photoreceptors?
A condition of high pressure inside the eye that may lead to blindness
What is glaucoma?
A ring of muscle tissue that forms the colored portion of the eye around the pupil and controls the size of the pupil opening.
What is the iris?
A pathway involved in object and visual identification and recognition. Also known as the What Pathway.
What is the ventral pathway?
Mediate color vision in more intense light, are made up of blue, green, and red types, and are mostly located in the fovea.
What are cones?
The cause of loss of vision for the right visual field in both eyes.
What is damage to the left optic tract/radiation/V1?
The transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus images on the retina.
What is the lens?
A pathway involved in visuospatial processing and processing movement. Also known as the Where Pathway.
What is the dorsal pathway?
Respond to low light and motion and are mostly found in the retinal periphery.
What are rods?
The cause of loss of vision in the left eye?
What is damage to the left optic nerve?
The light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that begin the processing of visual information.
What is the retina?
Carries information from the upper halves of the visual fields
What is the ventral bundle of the optic radiation?
A 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?
A condition leaving somebody able to see objects but not recognize them.
What is visual agnosia?
This is where light is focused for optimal visual acuity
What is the fovea?
Information form this part of the retinal fields decussates.
What is nasal?
Cells that receive information from the retinal cells and exit the visual system and send information the optic nerves.
What are ganglion cells?
The neurological condition caused by damage to the Fusiform Face Area (FFA) or damage to the ventral anterior pole of the temporal lobe.
What is prosopagnosia?