AUPSY 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Akinetopsia, Ganglion Cell, Retina

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

Supports repair of the nervous system if it becomes damaged. All or nothing effect it"s going to create a signal or its not; no varying degree. One neuron can receive information from many other neurons. Perception: processes used to organize, re-organize, and understand sensations from environmental stimuli. Look at clock and it appears that the clock arms aren"t moving, but if the patient looks away and looks back, the arms are in a different spot. Cannot track lip movement affects the understanding of social situations. Adjusts to allow more or less light into the eye. Opens and closes to control that light. More cones, no rods in the centre. When you point your eye at something, you"re using the cones to look at detail. A series of neurons communicates information from the retina to the cortex. Photoreceptors bipolar cells ganglion cells and the optic nerve. V1 the primary visual cortex , located in the occipital lobe.