The Visual World

1. Spot Where blood vessels enter the eye
3. Light sensitive surface at the back of the eye
7. Inability to recognize objects is called visual-______ agnosia
8. Columnar organization of area ____ has neurons that respond to categories of shapes
11. Subjective interpretation of sensations by the brain
12. The most common cause of blindness
13. Where cones are most densely packed
14. Small blind spot caused by migraine or small lesion of the cortex
15. The place where the optic nerves partially cross is called the optic _____
17. Visual system neurons sensitive to form and color
18. The left visual field projects to the ______visual cortex
20. Blindness in one quadrant of the visual field
23. Photoreceptor specialized for low light
24. Physical stimuli registered by sensory organs
25. Visual stream or pathway from V1 to temporal lobe
26. Theoretical explanation of color vision based on the coding of three primary colors
28. A cell in V1 the responds to a bar of light moving in a particular orientation
30. Primary visual cortex (V1) is called the ______ cortex
31. Explanation of color vision that emphasizes opposing color pairs is the ______-process.

2. The amount of visible light reflected from an object to the eye
3. Specific part of a sensory organ or cell the responds to the world is the _____ field
4. Can’t clearly focus distant objects
5. Secondary visual cortex (V2-V5)
6. Photoreceptor specialized for color and visual acuity
9. Visual system neurons sensitive to moving stimuli
10. Region in V1 that contains color sensitive neurons
16. Transduces light into neural activity
18. The tract from the retina to the suprachiasmic nucleus
19. The colored part of the eye
21. People with facial _______ cannot recognize faces
22. Visual stream or pathway from V1 to parietal lobe
27. Can’t focus on nearby objects
29. The optic nerve connects with the ______ of the thalamus