Vision 1

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What does vision depend on?
The quality of light that enters they eye
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What happens when light enters the eye? (1)
Light is refracted as it passes through the cornea
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What happens when light enters the eye? (2)
Light enters through an aperture in the iris called the pupil
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What happens when light enters the eye? (3)
The pupil can adjust light entering by contracting and dilating
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What happens when light enters the eye? (4)
Light passes through the lense: shape is adjusted by ciliary muscles
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What happens when light enters the eye? (5)
Light falls onto photosensitive surface called the retina
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What happens when light enters the eye? (6)
The image that falls onto the retina is back-to-front and inverted
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What are the three layers of the retina?
Photoreceptors, bipolar cells and ganglion cells
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What is the function of photoreceptors?
Transduce light
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What is the function of bipolar cells?
form intermediate layer
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What do the axons of ganglion cells do?
Fire action potentials and form the optic nerve
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What do 'horizontal' and 'amacrine' cells form?
Horizontal AKA lateral connections between cell layers
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What do amacrine cells connect?
Photoreceptors and bipolar cells
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What do horizontal cells connect?
Bipolar cells and ganglion cells
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What is light absorbed by?
Photopigments (light-sensitive chemicals)
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How many photoreceptors do we have?
126 million
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How many ganglion cells do we have?
1 million
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How many rods converge on a single ganglion cell?
10s or 100s
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How many cones converge on a single ganglion cell?
One
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Where is spatial resolution higher?
At the fovea (centre of visual field)
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How many rods per retina?
120 million
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Are there more rods in the periphery or the fovea?
Periphery
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How many cones per retina?
6 million
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What are the types of cones?
Short, medium and long
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Where are cones most abundant?
In and around fovea
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What are the types of ganglion cells?
Magnocellular cells (M-cells), Parvocellular cells (P-cells), Bistratified ganglion cells (K-cells)
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What characterises a ganglion cell's receptive field?
The area of visual field it responds to and the type of stimulus it responds to
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What are layers 1 and 2 of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)?
Magnocellular
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What are layers 3-6 of the LGN)?
Parvocellular
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