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Optic Axis
imaginary diameter line from front to back of eye, passes through lens centre: passes through centre of lens
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Sclera
Cornea-forms the outer membrane, protective covering that is the white of the eye- transparent cornea at front of eye
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Cloroid/vaatvlies
middle membrane, lining the interior of the sclera: contains most blood vessels supplying inside of eye with oxygen and nutrients
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Retina
inner membrane, made up of neurons (including receptors converting light entering, into neural signals
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Pupillary reflex
the automatic process which causes the following: Intense light\= constricts- pupil smaller, less light enters, dim light\= dilates- pupil larger, more light enters
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Anterior Chamber
space between cornea and iris
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Posterior Chamber
space between iris and lens
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Aqueous humor
the clear, thin, fluid filling the space in the front of the eyeball between the lens and the cornea.
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Vitreous chamber
main interior portion of the eye
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Vitreous humor
the transparent jellylike fluid filling the eyeball behind the lens.
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Intraocular pressure
pressure of the fluids in the three chambers of the eye
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Focal length
the distance from a lens at which the image of an object is infects when the object is far away from the lens
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Lens
transparent structure near the front of the eye that refracts the light passing through the pupil so light focuses properly on the retina
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Diopters
Units used to express the power of a lens; diopters\= 1/focal length
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Zonule fibers
Fibers that connect the lens to the choroid, they pull on the lens to change its shape
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Ciliary muscles
Tiny muscles attached to choroid; relax and contract to control how choroid pulls on zone fibres to change shape of the lens
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Accommodation
Adjustment of shape of the lens so light from objects at different distances focuses correctly on the retina
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Retinal image
A clear image on the retina of the optic array
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Nuclear Layers
The three main layers of the retina, including the outer nuclear layer, inner nuclear layer, and ganglion cell layer
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Synaptic layers
In the retina, two layers separating the three nuclear layers
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Photoreceptors
Retinal neurons that transduce light into neural signals
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Rods and Cones
The two classes of photoreceptors, named for their distinctive shape
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Pigment epithelium
A layer of cells attached to the choroid; photoreceptors are embedded in it
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Outer nuclear layer
Layer of retina consisting of photoreceptors (not including inner and outer segments)
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Inner nuclear layer
Layer of retina that contains bipolar cells, horizontal cells, and amacrine cells
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Bipolar cells
Neurons in the inner nuclear layer of the retina
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Horizontal and amacrine cells
neurons in the inner nuclear layer of the retina
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ganglion cell layer
the layer of the retina that contains retinal ganglion cells
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Retinal ganglion cells
Neurons in the ganglion cell layer of the retina
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Outer synaptic layer
layer of the retina that contains the synapses among photoreceptors, bipolar cells, and horizontal cells
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Inner synaptic layer
Layer of retina that contains the synapses among bipolar cells, amacrine cells, and RCGs
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Optic disk (blink spot)
Location of the retina that contains the synapses among photoreceptors, bipolar cells, and horizontal cells
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Optic nerve
Nerve formed by the bundling together of the axons of RGCs; it exits the eye through the optic disk
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Fovea
A region in the centre of the retina where the light from objects at the centre of our gaze strikes the retina; contains no rods and a high density of cones
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Luminance contrast
A difference in the intensity of illumination at adjacent retinal locations
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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
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Orientation columns
Cortex is organised so neurons along same perpendicular track have preference for stimuli with same orientations
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Ocular dominance
Preferential response int he cortex to one eye
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Ocular dominance columns
neurons with the same ocular dominance are organised in this way
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Hypercolumn
Combo of all three types of columns into this larger unit
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cortical magnification factor
an area close to the fovea is allotted more cortical space to than area further away
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Acromatopsia
cortical colour blindness
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ablation
destruction/removal of tissue in the nervous system
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visual agnosia
pathway to temporal lobes is responsible for object identification
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object discrimination problem
removal of temporal lobes made object discrimination after ablation difficult
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landmark discrimination problem
removal of parietal lobes made location discrimination after ablation difficult
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optic ataxia
pathway to parietal lobes is responsible for object localization
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psychophysics
Study of the relationship between physical stimuli in the world and the sensations that we experience
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Problem of detection
Measuring the minimum intensity of a stimulus that we can perceive
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Problem of discrimination
Measure how different two stimuli must be before they appear the same
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Problem of scaling
Describe the relationship between the intensity of the stimulus and the intensity of our sensation
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Absolute threshold
Minimum amount of energy change from zero
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Adaptive testing
keeping the test stimuli "hovering around" the threshold by adapting the sequence of stimulus presentations to the observer's responses
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Catch trials
No stimulus is presented into the series of trials om te kijken of participanten gokken

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Difference threshold
threshold for perception fo difference between the standard and the other stimuli
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Negative time error
stimulus presented first (usually the standard) is judged to be less intense than the later stimulus
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Weber's law
The relation between the size of the difference threshold and the magnitude of the standard
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Weber's fraction
delta I/I
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Simple reaction time
pressing or releasing a button immediately on detecting a stimulus
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Choice reaction time
making one of several different responses depending on the stimulus presented
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S-cone (blue)
Short cone, preferentially sensitive to short wavelengths
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M-cone (green)
Cone that is preferentially sensitive to middle wavelengths
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L-cone (red)
Cone that is preferentially sensitive to long wavelengths
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Spectral sensitivity
Referring to the sensitivity of a cell or device to different wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum
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Photopic
Light intensities that are bright enough to stimulate the cone receptors and bright enough to "saturate" the rod receptors
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Scotopic
Light intensities that are bright enough to stimulate the rod receptors but too dim to stimulate the cone receptors
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Principle of univariance
an infinite set of different wavelength-intensity combinations can elicit exactly the same response from a single type of photoreceptor: one photoreceptor type cannot make colour discriminations based on wavelength
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Trichromacy (Young-Helmholtz Theory)
theory that the colour of any light is defined in our visual system by the relationships of three receptor types, know as the three cones
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Metamers
Different mixtures of wavelengths that look identical: any pair of stimuli that are perceived as identical despite physical differences
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Additive colour mixture
a mixture of lights- if light A and light B are both reflected from a surface to the eye, in the perception of colour the effects of those two lights add together
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Subtractive colour mixture
A mixture of pigments. If pigments A and B mix, some of the light shining on the surface will be subtracted by A, and some by B. Only the remainder contributes to the perception of colour
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Lateral geniculate nucleus
Structure in the thalamus, part of the midbrain that receives input from the retinal ganglion cells and has input and output connections to the visual cortex
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Cone-opponent cell
cell type (in retina, LGN, & visual cortex) that subtracts one type of cone input from another
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Koniocellular
Referring to cells in the koniocellular layer of the LGN of the thalamus
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Parvocellular
Referring to cells in the parvocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus
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Circadian
Biological cycle that recurs approximately every 24 hours, even in the absence of cues to time of day
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melanopsin
A photopigment, found in a class of photoreceptive retinal ganglion cells
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Colour space
3D space, established because colour perception is based on the outputs of 3 cone types, that describes the set of all colours
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Opponent colour theory
Theory that perception of colour is based on output from three mechanisms, each of them resulting from opponent between two colours: red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white
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Unique hue
any of 4 colours that can be described with only a single colour term (red, yellow, green, blue). Other colours can be described as compounds
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Double opponent cells
Cell type found in visual cortex, where one region is excited by one cone type, combination of cones, or colour, and inhibited by the opponent cones or colour. Adjacent region would be inhibited by 1st input and excited by 2nd
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Achromatopsia
Inability to perceive colours caused by damage to CNS
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Deuteranope
Individual who suffers from colour blindness, due to absence of M-cones
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Protanope
individual who suffers from colour blindness due to absence of l-cones
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Tritanope
Individual who suffers colour blindness due to absence of s-cones
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Colour-anomalous
Colour-blind
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Cone monochromat
Individual with only one cone type: truly colour blind
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rod monochromat
individual with no cones of any type, additional to being truly-colour blind, also badly visually impaired in bright lights
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Agnosia
Failure to recognise objects despite ability to see them (due to brain damage)
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Anomia
Failure to name objects despite ability to see and recognise them (due to brain damage)
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Colour contract
Colour perception effect where colour of one region indices opponent colour in neighbouring region
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Colour assimilation
colour perception effect in which two colours bleed into each other, each taking on some of the chromatic quality of the other
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Negative afterimage
An afterimage whose polarity is the opposite of the original stimulus. Light stimuli produce dark negative afterimages. Colour are complementary
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Adapting stimulus
Stimulus whose removal produces a change in visual perception of sensitivity
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Neutral point
point at which opponent colour mechanism is generating no signal. If red-green and blue-yellow mechanisms at neutral points, a stimulus will appear achromatic
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Amplitude or intensity
The magnitude of displacement (increase or decrease) of a sound pressure wave. Amplitude is perceived as loudness.
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Frequency
For sound, the number of times per second that a pattern of pressure change repeats: perceived as pitch
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Hertz
the unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second
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Sine Wave
Waveform for which variation as a function of time is a sine function
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Spectrum
Representation of the relative energy (intensity) present at each frequency