20512216
Description
Flashcards by Nuria Nácher Soler, updated more than 1 year ago
|
Created by Nuria Nácher Soler
almost 6 years ago
|
|
| Question | Answer |
| VISUAL RECEIVING AREA | Striate cortex |
| IPSILATERAL EYE | Eye on the same side of the body as the LGN (Lateral Geniculate Nucleus) |
| CONTRALATERAL EYE | Eye on the opposite side of the body from the LGN |
| SIMPLE CORTICAL CELLS | Cells with side-by-side receptive fields |
| END-STOPPED CELLS | Cells that fire to moving lines of a specific length or to moving corners or angles |
| FEATURE DETECTORS | Features of the stimulus |
| SELECTIVE ADAPTATION | If the neurons fire for long enough, they become fatigue or adapt; which can cause neuron´s firing rate to decrease or either the neuron firing less when that stimulus is immediately presented again |
| GRATING´S STIMULI | Alternating bars |
| GRATING´S CONTRAST THRESHOLD | Difference in intensity at which the bars can just barely be seen |
| SELECTIVE REARING | If an animal is reared in an environment that contains only certain types of stimuli, then neurons that respond to these stimuli will become more prevalent |
| NEURAL PLASTICITY/ EXPERIENCE-DEPENDENT PLASTICITY | Idea that the response properties of neurons can be shaped by perceptual experience |
| BRAIN IMAGING | Number of techniques that result in images that show which areas of the brain are active |
| OCULAR DOMINANCE | Preferential response to one eye |
| CORTEX | Series of columns that alternate in ocular dominance in a left-right-left-right pattern |
| HYPERCOLUMNS | Combination of all three types of columns |
| ABLATION | Destruction or removal of tissue in the nervous system |
| FEEDBACK | "Backward" flow of information. Provides information from high centers that influence the signals flowing into the system |
| DISSOCIATIONS | Situations in which one function is absent while another function is present |
| MODULE | Specialized structure to process information about a particular type of stimulus |
| FUSIFORM FACE AREA (FFA) | Area specialized to respond to faces. Located in the fusiform gyrus on the underside of the brain directly below the IT cortex |
| PROSOPAGNOSIA | Difficulty recognizing the faces of familiar people |
| PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA (PPA) | Important information about spatial layout |
| EXSTRASTRIATE BODY AREA (EBA) | Area activated by pictures of bodies and parts of bodies |
Want to create your own Flashcards for free with GoConqr? Learn more.