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Human eye, horizontal section. The retinal bipolar cells send impulses to the visual cortex via the lateral geniculate nucleus. “V1”. Lateral Geniculate Nucleus. http://scien.stanford.edu/class/psych221. http://thebrain.mcgill.ca.
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The retinal bipolar cells send impulses to the visual cortex via the lateral geniculate nucleus. “V1” Lateral Geniculate Nucleus http://scien.stanford.edu/class/psych221
The receptive field of a neuron describes the part of the visual field from which that neuron receives stimuli. http://thebrain.mcgill.ca
“Resolution” refers to some measure of the ability to separate (resolve) objects
One measure of resolution is resolvable line pairs per millimeter (Often given for stereomicroscopes) Spatial frequency is a number per mm, just as temporal frequency is a number per second.