Across
- 2. Located in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex; contains many modules, each of which codes a variety of information (depth, orientation, color, etc.) about a specific location on the visual field.
- 5. Views at which objects are most easily recognized, typically those which reveal the most information about an object’s features or component shapes.
- 10. Refers to the topographic organization of the primary visual cortex, in which adjacent areas of the cortex respond to adjacent locations of the visual field.
- 12. Better visual recognition of letters when they are presented in a word context, compared to when a single letter is presented alone
- 14. Context-, expectation-, or theory-based processing, e.g., using knowledge of the context in which a stimulus occurs to help recognize it.
- 15. The area of the visual field to which a given cell (e.g., in the optic nerve or visual cortex) responds; stimulating some parts of this area may cause an inhibitory response while stimulating other parts may cause an excitatory response.
Down
- 1. Processes a specific type of information (e.g., shape, movement, color) over the entire visual field.
- 3. Short for “recognition-by-components”; a theory of visual pattern recognition that assumes that objects are analyzed and represented in terms of simple 3D geometrical shapes.
- 4. A connectionist model of visual pattern recognition that features both excitatory and inhibitory connections, and in which activation can flow from the top down (word level to letter level) as well as from the bottom up (features to letters, letters to words).
- 6. A theory of pattern recognition that claims that people recognize objects by first extracting their simple or basic properties (edges, corners, etc.) and relationships among these properties.
- 7. Neurons leading from the eye to the superior colliculus and the lateral geniculate nucleus; axons make up the optic nerve.
- 8. 3D geometrical forms such as cones, cylinders, spheres, and so on; a small vocabulary of such forms could be used to represent the shapes of many familiar objects.
- 9. One of two types of photoreceptors in the eye; functions best at light levels, high resolution, color, most concentrated in the center of the visual field (fovea).
- 11. Data-driven processing, e.g., recognizing a stimulus based only on the physical information it contains.
- 13. one of the two types of photoreceptors in the eye; functions at low light levels, poor resolution, black and white, most concentrated in the periphery of the visual field