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The Visual System May 30, 2014

The Visual System May 30, 2014. Unit Two – Sensation & Perception. How do we interact with our environment? How do we process & interpret this information? Sensation  Perception. Processing Visual Information. Why Vision?. Accurate representation of the world Respond to changes .

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The Visual System May 30, 2014

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  1. The Visual SystemMay 30, 2014

  2. Unit Two – Sensation & Perception How do we interact with our environment? How do we process & interpret this information? Sensation  Perception

  3. Processing Visual Information

  4. Why Vision? Accurate representation of the world Respond to changes

  5. Seeing is Believing What you see based on perception • Product of brain, biology Experience of the environment • Reality? • “Rebuilt” from components First, the anatomy…

  6. The Eye Sensory receptors in the eye Signal from the environment is light • Response to light patterns • Iris is contractile tissue – constrict/dilate to change light entry through pupil

  7. The Eye • lens – bends (refracts) light • Held/modulated by ciliary muscles • Aided by cornea • Depends on distance • Focuses light on retina– at back of eye • Image inverted • Near/far sightedness

  8. The Retina Receptors for vision

  9. Rods & Cones (20:1) Cones High acuity (details) Daylight Photopigments Rods Low acuity Night/low light vision (high sensitivity) No color pigments

  10. Rods & Cones Fovea – center of retina w/ high acuity (cones) Little to no cones in periphery (almost all rods) • What can we see in center vs. periphery?

  11. Acuity/Sensitivity Constant saccades & drifts – scan, never fixed Summation of constantly changing info - fovea

  12. Acuity/Sensitivity • Constriction - focus of light on fovea • Acuity, details • Dilation - diffuse light to fovea & periphery • Sensitivity, dimly lit • Low light - sacrifice acuity for sensitivity • SNS - pupil dilation – does this make sense?

  13. Retina Receptors  bipolar cells  ganglion cells

  14. The Retina Acuity is a property of low convergence

  15. Receptor Action No action potentials… • Rhodopsin (pigment) absorbs light • G-protein coupled receptor • Depolarization/hyperpolarization of cell • Release of neurotransmitter (Diagram in text)

  16. Receptive Fields • Respond to some aspect of stimuli • Neurons work together – info about stimuli • Position in space, orientation, boundaries, movement

  17. Color Vision • Cones - pigments respond to different wavelengths • Wavelength determines color • Humans – “red, green, blue” • Color - combination of activation of these receptors • Proportion of activity in different cones

  18. Color Vision Wavelength - color perception Intensity – brightness Color constancy – relative, indep. of lightsource

  19. Color Vision Not the light itself that is colored or bright… …our perception/ interpretation

  20. Color Vision • Color blindness - cannot distinguish wavelengths • Two photoreceptors/pigments do not differ • Usually red/green

  21. Visual Processing at the Cortex

  22. Retina  Cortex Receptors  ganglion cells Leave eye (optic nerve) for processing Blind spot (no receptors) • Masked w/ both eyes • System “fills in”

  23. Retina  Cortex • To visual cortex (perception) • Via the thalamus (retina-geniculate-striate pathway) • Also to superior colliculi in midbrain – why? • Sleep/wake • Eye movements/attention

  24. Retina  Cortex • Visual field – corresp. to particular spot on retina • Nasal, temporal hemiretina • Info from contralateral visual field • Cross over- optic chiasm • Optic nerve (L/R eye); Optic tract (L/R visual field) • Effect of damage depends on location

  25. Retina  Cortex • Info (shape, color, etc) to thalamus • Parvocellular cells – small, fine detail (cones) • Magnocellular cells – large, movement (rods) • To cortex for further processing Different aspects of stimulus processed separately! Still highly organized

  26. Area V1 • Primary visual cortex - posterior occipital cortex • Topographic organization (conserves relationship) • Adjacent retina  adjacent in LGN & cortex • Fovea  periphery : posterior  anterior • Lower visual field in upper region (& v. versa)

  27. Area V1 • Visual experience – maintain, fine tune connections • Sensitive period • Plasticity • Representation of stimulation as “visual” • What would happen if V1 stimulated by auditory nerve?

  28. Binocular Vision Why do we have two eyes? • See in almost every direction without turning head • Allows 3-D vision (depth) • Overlap (both eyes at the same time)

  29. Binocular Vision • Disparity – diff. betw. where info falls on each retina • Cue for distance • Cells in cortex sensitive to disparity • Strabismus alters normal binocular vision

  30. Binocular Vision • Predators – eyes in front, more overlap • Can also have more fovea • Better depth perception • Prey – eyes on sides, sacrifice depth • Judge distance of prey, acuity • Widen range of vision, predators approaching

  31. Vision Across Species http://i.imgur.com/aRjn8.png

  32. Secondary Visual Processing

  33. Review Light = stimulus, receptors on retina Retinal receptors  thalamus (& brainstem)  primary visual cortex Primary cortex – orientation, edges (receptive field) Higher order processing

  34. A Holistic View See things as whole rather than a collection of parts… …but each area of cortex does not Each has unique “perspective” - require coordination between these regions How does the brain see objects as a whole?

  35. Beyond Area V1 • Reassemble features into objects • Primary cortex to secondary sites • Specialization • Area V4 for color perception

  36. Area V5/MT • Motion • Info from primary cortex & magnocellular cells • Form, speed, direction and location • Poor acuity

  37. Area V5/MT • Motion parallax – if cross retina quicker, appear to move quicker • Cue for depth • Akinetopsia – difficulty w/ movement progression • Series of stills

  38. Area V5/MT • Responding to movement across the retina.. … so what is the problem? • Did object or eye move? • Internal sense

  39. Dorsal & Ventral Streams

  40. Parallel Processing Secondary  Association cortex Dorsal stream • Ego (person) centered • Where it is? • How to interact w/ it

  41. Parallel Processing Ventral stream Object centered What is it? Work together to guide interaction - w/ other sensory info

  42. Dorsal Stream • (“Where”) … or how: behavioral interactions • Spatial relationship • Representation in space -- grasping, manipulations

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