PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Necker Cube, Neural Oscillation, Visual Cortex

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Connie Boudens

Document Summary

Rods lower sensitivity lower acuity colour blind periphery of retina. A series of neurons communicates information from the retina to the cortex in the eye: Ganglion cells and optic nerve (goes from eyeball, where the blind spot is, and carries information to different parts of the brain) in thalamus: There"s some neural activity in the individual system in that visual system diagram. One"s a bright stimulus and one is dull. If we think of two images coming in, cell b has information coming in from both cell a and c where cell c is only getting information from cell b, cell d would not have information coming in. This is what elicits one of our optical illusions i. e. mach bands, lateral inhibition between neighbouring cells and the retina. The other example, the checkerboard with the cylinder, square b is the same level of darkness as a.