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Sensation
Effects of a stimulus on the sensory organ
Perception
Organization and interpretation of that sensory energy
Cones
Sees color and detail, reduced in the periphery
Rods
Doesn’t see color, absent from the fovea, concentrated in the periphery
Retinal ganglion cells
Last layer of cells in the retna, responds to changes in lighting in the receptive
Receptive field
The region in space in which stimuli modulate the firing rate of a neuron, compared to its base rate
simple cell
Respond to lines in 1 direct location
Complex cells
Respond to lines across the field
Extrastriate cortex
Areas of the Occipital cortex with connections to and from v1 responsible for more detailed visual processing