PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Spatial Frequency, Inferior Temporal Gyrus, Prosopagnosia
11 Mar 2013
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Orientation-sensitive neurons (hubel and wiesel, 1960"s): an orientation-sensitive neuron in the striate cortex will respond only when a line of a particular orientation appears within its receptive field. The response of a cell in the striate cortex: The difference between the two eyes" images, which is a result of the eyes" horizontal separation, is usually re- ferred to as binocular disparity or retinal disparity. Visual association cortex: the extrastriate cortex is a layer of neurons that surround the striate cortex. It consists of several regions that form independent maps: each region responds to specific features of the visual environment, outputs of striate cortex (area v1) are sent to areas of extrastriate cortex (area. What" and where" visual streams: the ventral stream recognizes what the object is and its colour, the dorsal stream recognizes where the object is and whether it is moving.
