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7 Cards in this Set
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Fovea |
A lot of activity, which means color and detail works well with good lighting |
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Detail of retinal circuitry (pathway) |
Photoreceptor (cons and rods) Bipolar cell layer (amacrine cell) Ganglion cell layer |
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Primary visual pathway |
Optic nerve travels back and undergoes partial decussation (cross) at the optic chiasm 1/2 axons cross (contalateral) half do not ipsilateral Axons from nasal 1/2 of retina cross and temporal axons do not |
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Primary visual pathway 2 |
Optic tract travels back and synapses in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus (lgn) |
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Mangocellular |
Inner 2 layers of lgn |
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Parvocellular |
Outer 4 layers of the lgn |
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Last step of visual pathway |
Neurons in the lgn project up to the primary visual cortex (V1 or striate cortex) |
