PSY 430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Prosopagnosia, Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Thalamus
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D: light strikes receptors at the back of the eye and where they leave is called the blind spot. I: despite the complex structure of the eye it holds many consequences like the blind spot. E: message from receptors go forward into the eye to bipolar neurons then to ganglion cells. D: cones in fovea (center) and rods more common toward periphery (cones for color and rods for black and white) I: two main components found within the fovea and periphery of the eye. D: also known as color vision de ciency where the most common type is red-green colorblindness. I: color vision de ciency where the individual has a hard time differentiating red and green. E: x-linked gene meaning is occurs mostly in men. D: we perceive color and brightness by contrasting each image with the rest of the scene. I: theory on how perceiving color and brightness varies with each color and image.
