CH 8

How is V1 important for global motion detection?

Motion adaptation is similar to color adaptation in what way(s)?

The marquee outside of a theater has lights in a loop that blink on and off in rapid succession, leading to the impression that the lights are moving around the marquee. This is an example of which type of motion?

This type of motion has been shown to activate not only the visual system, but also the motor system related to the motion.

What is the best description of the aperture problem?

How are the Aperture Problem and Binocular Disparity related?

A plane is flying across the sky and you watch it, keeping your fixation on it as it moves: what term best describes the kind of eye movement you are using?

Which of the following statements about fixations is/are true?

What is a key parameter that experimenters manipulate in both the Newsome and Pare studies and in visual search tasks?

How is Tau related to Gestalt shape processing?

Nirav is watching a soccer game. For a while, he is fixated on the goalie who is just standing in front of the goal. Nirav then quickly moves his eyes to midfield to watch the action, but realizes he didn’t notice the ball move while he shifted his eyes. This is due to _______________.

_______ is motion of an object that is defined by changes in contrast or texture, but not by luminance.

What best describes what Newsome and Paré found in their experiments?

What two regions of the brain shift their spatial receptive field locations in anticipation of an eye movement?

When we make a voluntary eye movement, the motor cortex sends a motor signal to the eye, and a(n) ___________ signal to the visual system.

A person detects an object moving. It passes from the receptive field of Cell A to the receptive field of Cell B. For a motion sensitive cell in V1 to respond appropriately to this motion, what is the correct wiring of cells between A & B to V1? D = Delay Cell, and X = Multiplication Cell.

Why is optic flow important for things like landing planes?

The Superior Colliculus may receive input from all of the following brain regions EXCEPT:

You are looking at a kite. The location of the image on your retina does not move, and yet you perceive the kite as being in motion. What must be true for this to happen?