Psychology 2075 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Complementary Colors, Ewald Hering, Gestalt Psychology

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Visual information gets to the brain by axons leaving the back of each eye form the optic nerves which travel to the optic chiasm. Optic chiasm is the point at which the optic nerves from the inside half of each eye cross over and then project to the opposite half of the brain. Visual signals are processed in the lateral geniculate nucleus and the distributed to areas in the occipital lobe that make up the primary visual cortex. Second visual pathway leaving the optic chiasm branches off to an area in the midbrain called the superior colliculus before traveling through the thalamus and onto the occipital lobe. Parallel processing involves simultaneously extracting different kinds of information from the same input. Simple cells respond best to a line of the correct width, orientated at the correct angle, and located in the correct position in the receptive field.