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the eye, color/brightness, v1 & lgn, object recognition

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accommodation   the process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina  
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achromatopsia   An inability to perceive colors that is caused by damage to the central nervous system.  
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adaptation   (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)  
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agnosia   failure to recognize or identify objects despite intact sensory function  
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amacrine cells   contact bipolar and ganglion cells  
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amblyopia   lazy eye  
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anomia   inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects  
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aqueous humor   watery liquid secreted at the ciliary body that fills the anterior and posterior chambers of the eye and provides nourishment for the cornea, iris, and lens (humor = fluid)  
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astigmatism   (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea, impairing proper focus  
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basic categorization   largest class of which we can form a fairly concrete image (ie chair, ball)  
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bipolar cells   eye neurons that receive information from the retinal cells and distribute information to the ganglion cells of the optic nerve  
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blind spot   the point where the optic nerve enters the retina  
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brightness   intensity of reflected light that reaches our eyes  
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cataract   clouding of the natural lens of the eye  
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categorization   the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type  
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ciliary muscle   the tissue and muscle that surrounds the lens of the eye. it controls the shape of the lens.  
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color anomalous   color blind  
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complex cells   orientation selective, spatially homogenous receptive fields, mostly binocular, length summation  
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compression (intensity)   cells respond more to changes than to maintained levels  
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compression (resolution)   encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required, leading to a loss in peripheral resolution.  
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cone   visual receptor cell sensitive to color, fine visual acuity and day light vision (s-cones, l-cones, m-cones)  
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cone monochromat   only one cone type, truly color blind  
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convergence   a binocular cue for perceiving depth; the extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object  
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cornea   transparent anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye  
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cortical magnification   the amount of cortical area that is devoted to a specific region for the the visual system  
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crystalline lens   Part of the eye which in addition to the cornea refracts light rays and focuses them on the retina  
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deuteranope   an individual who suffers from color blindness that is due to the absence of M-cones  
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diffuse bipolar cells   retinal bipolar cells whose processes are spread out to receive input from multiple cones. Project to M ganglion cells  
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eccentricity   the distance between the retinal image and the fovea.  
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emmetropia   normal vision  
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fovea   area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute  
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ganglion cells   the specialized cells which lie behind the bipolar cells whose axons form the optic nerve which takes the information to the brain  
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