Quiz 3: Visual System

Photoreceptors: Cones are to ___ as rods are to ___.

• Photons; sound waves

• Color; detail (bright vs dark)

• Detail (bright vs dark); color

• Sound waves; photons

What is the name of the structure where the two lines of optic nerves "cross over" in our visual system?

• Optic chiasm

• Corpus callosum

• Optic nerves

• Optic radiations

After the optic nerves "cross over" at the optic chiasm, what is the name of the nerve pathway that follows?

• Optic nerves

• Optic tracts

• Optic radiations

• Optic projections

What is the name of the structure following the optic tracts, bringing the visual information to more diverse areas of the occipital lobe?

• Optic prioritization

• Optic destinations

• Optic projections

• Optic radiations

What condition is caused by an increasingly rigid, inflexible lens of the eye with age?

• Macular degeneration

• Presbyopia

• Nice try but the lens does not become more rigid / inflexible with age

• Progressive color blindness

The retina: The fovea is to ___ as the peripheral region is to ___. (TWO answers)

• rods; cones

• cones; rods

• acuity; sensitivity

• sensitivity; acuity

What is the Fusiform Face Area responsible for?

• Detecting touch sensitivity to our own face

• Recognizing faces

• Improving memory when you touch your face like stroking your chin in thought

• Merging two faces together because you get one copy from each eye

Parvocellular is to ___ as magnocellular is to ___. (only one answer!)

• "where"pathway; the temporal lobe

• fovea; the parietal lobe

• retinal periphery; the parietal lobe

• "what" pathway; the temporal lobe

Names of brain regions: The "what" pathway is to ___ as the "where" pathway is to ___ and the occipital lobe is to ___.

• V4; MT & MST; V1

• V4; V1; MT & MST

• V1; MT & MST; V4

• V1; V4; MT & MST

Which pathway would be concerned about the color of an object?

• "what" pathway

• "where" pathway

• neither

• both

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8