PSYC 271- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 271
• Professor: Peter Gagolewicz

Document Summary

The visual system requires the integration of 2 types of research: Research that probes the visual system with sophisticated neuroanatomical, neurochemical and neurophysiological techniques. Research that focuses on the assessment of what we see. 6 modules: from retina to primary visual cortex. Light enters the eye and reaches the retina. The retina and translation of light into neural signals. Cortical mechanisms of vision and conscious awareness. No animal can see in complete darkness bc light is reflected into your eyes from the objects around them and that is now you see, // no light, no vision. Light can be thought of in 2 different ways. As discrete particles of energy photons, travelling about 300k km/second. Waves of energy between 380 760 nanometers. So(cid:373)e a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als (cid:272)a(cid:374) see (cid:449)a(cid:448)es that (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t rattlesnakes can see infared waves. Wavelength and intensity are 2 properties of light that are oof interest.