Visual Coding Quiz

TRUE or FALSE? Visual system duplicates the image. It codes it by various kinds of neuronal activity

• TRUE

• FALSE

Located closer to the center of the eye.

• Ganglion cells

• Amacrine Cells

• Bipolar Cells

• Receptors

“Light rays bounce off an object in all directions, but you see only thase rays that reflect off the object and strike your retina”

• Ibn al-Haytham

• Johannes Müller

• Rene Descartes

“Whatever excites a particular nerve establishes a special kind of energy unique to that nerve.”

• Ibn Al-Haytham

• Johannes Müller

• Rene Descartes

Axons join together and travel back to the brain

• Receptors

• Amacrine Cells

• Bipolar Cells

• Ganglion Cells

Get information from bipolar and send it to other bipolar, amacrine, ganglion cells; enabling certain ones to respond mainly to particular stimuli.

• Amacrine Cells

• Bipolar Cells

• Receptors

• Ganglion Cells

Point at which optic nerve leaves (also where blood vessels enter and leaves)

__exits through the back of the eye

Where you fixate your gaze.

Abundant in the periphery, respond to faint light

• Rods

• Cones