EXP 4204 Midterm: EXP Midterm Review Chapter 4

• School: FIU
• Department: Experimental Psychology
• Course: EXP 4204
• Professor: Ali Pournaghdali

Document Summary

Initially, the brain is respecting the outside visual world in terms of its representation in the brain. The left world goes to the right hemisphere, the right world goes to the left hemisphere: contralateral organization, opposite of ipsilateral organization, or same-side organization. After the chiasm: 90% of the axons make their way to the lgn of the thalamus. This is also true for the koniocellular layers underneath each of these layers: this means that the lgn preserves information about both where in the visual world information is coming from and which eye is detecting that information. It is critical to know where in the world objects are, but knowing which eye an image comes from is important in constructing a three-dimensional image. Not all retinal ganglion cells are the same: we see the beginning of three unique pathways that start in the retinae and continue to the visual cortex.