The Visual System
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This Neuroscience page on GoConqr gathers community-made quizzes, mind maps, flashcards and notes on The Visual System, from the retina and the lateral geniculate nucleus to the primary visual cortex, colour, eye movements and visual agnosias. It's built for university students revising a topic and teachers after ready-made material. There are over 130 resources here, including more than 10 quizzes and over 70 flashcards. Try a quiz to find your gaps, then build your own maps and flashcards.
Top The Visual System resources
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13 questionsCOGS100 Central Visual Pathways The area which the optic nerve in each eye will cross over.
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263 cardsVisual Pathway
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97 cardsVisual Neuroscience What is the perceptual process?
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46 cardsEye movements Role of brainstem (particularly midbrain and pons) as the "final common pathway" for eye movement control
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47 cardsNeuroscience Modules 7-11 What is the optic disk?
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Mind map Visual Brain Part I
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86 cardsVision What are the 3 types of neural cells in the eyes?
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Mind map Visual Agnosias
Quizzes
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13 questionsCOGS100 Central Visual Pathways The area which the optic nerve in each eye will cross over.
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15 questionsWeek 6
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12 questionsWeek 6 - Spatial Vision Considering the selectivity for eye of origin. Which eye(s) would a cell in the ocular dominance range of 4...
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200 questionsNeuroscience and the Mind True or false: within the retina, there is a receptor for every single possible colour
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100 questionsInterventions in Clinical Neuropsychology Test Somebody randomly selected from the general population fails one’s chosen executive task. They have no obvi...
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54 questionsVisual System II and III
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40 questionsChapter 11 In the vertebrate retina, the outer segments of the receptor cells point toward the
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53 questionsW6: Vision Below this question are depicted several kinds of receptive fields. In these diagrams white areas correspon...
Mind maps
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263 cardsVisual Pathway
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97 cardsVisual Neuroscience What is the perceptual process?
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46 cardsEye movements Role of brainstem (particularly midbrain and pons) as the "final common pathway" for eye movement control
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47 cardsNeuroscience Modules 7-11 What is the optic disk?
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86 cardsVision What are the 3 types of neural cells in the eyes?
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34 cardsSpatial Vision Contrast sensitivity function ad spatial frequency channels
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33 cardsvisual pathways what is teh 3 neutron chain of the visual pathway?
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13 cardsVisual processing
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Notes
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Lecture 2 - The Retina and LGN Chapter 1 RetinaLight has to travel to a good amount of neural gunk and blood vessels to reach the photoreceptors, but that is okay because it is usually diffused enough so that we don't see shadows in our field of vi...
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Lecture 3 - Colour Chapter 5 Luminance = the black & white information we get from our surroundings (no colour)The visible spectrum is the section of the electromagnetic spectrum that we are able to see (400-700 nm?). The wavelength of ...
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Illusions Illusions The Hermann/Hering grid Possible explanation: receptive fields but it can't be the whole storyThe scintillating grid
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4. Special Part of the Brain Just for Recognizing Faces There is a special part of the brain outside the visual cortex whose sole purpose is to recognize faces. Identified by Nancy Kanwisher (1997), the fusiform face area (FFA) allows faces to bypass the brain’s usual inte...
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Saccadic Supression during Reading Activities Cognitive suppression during saccades and eye movement research The foveal high acuity vision corresponding to the center of our gaze is confined to a relatively small retinal area encompassing approximately 3 degrees...
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About The Visual System
GoConqr OriginalWhat the unit covers
The resources follow light from the eye to the brain. Early items deal with the retina, photoreceptors and the pathways inside the retina. Others follow the signal through the optic chiasm and the lateral geniculate nucleus to the primary visual cortex. Later ones move on to extrastriate areas, object recognition, motion, colour and eye movements.
Where to start
Begin with the big picture. The mind maps Visual system 1 and Visual system 2 set out the visual pathways, the idea that the right hemifield activates the left brain, and what the visual system does: adaptation, localisation and object recognition.
- Read the maps to get the overall route.
- Work through the flashcard decks Visual Pathway and Visual processing, which cover terms such as the optical chiasm, simple and complex cells, and the magnocellular and parvocellular pathways.
- Take the quiz COGS100 Central Visual Pathways to check what crosses over at the optic chiasm.
Using quizzes and maps together
Use a map first to see how the parts connect. Then use a quiz to test yourself on those links. If a question catches you out, go back to the map or the matching flashcards and read that branch again. The quiz Week 6 - Spatial Vision is a good next step, with questions on ocular dominance and orientation selectivity.
Going further
Once the pathway feels familiar, look at what happens when it goes wrong. The mind map Visual Agnosias explains deficits in object recognition linked to damage in extrastriate areas, while the notes on the retina and LGN give a lecture-style account of the early stages. Dorsal and ventral streams and functional specialisation have their own maps.
Where it fits
This unit sits in the Sensory and Motor Systems strand of Neuroscience. Pick a resource that matches your next lecture, and then make your own maps and flashcards to fill any gaps.
Frequently asked questions
Which resource should I open first?
Start with the mind maps Visual system 1 and Visual system 2. They give a quick overview of the visual pathways and the main jobs of the visual system. After that, move to the flashcard deck Visual Pathway and then try the quiz on central visual pathways.
What do the mind maps cover?
The mind maps range from overviews of the visual pathway to the lateral geniculate nucleus, photoreceptors, the primary visual cortex, dorsal and ventral systems, plasticity, illusions and visual agnosias. Some follow lecture weeks, so you can pick the one that matches your course.
Are the resources free to use?
Yes. Every resource listed here is free to open, study and take, with no account needed. They were made by GoConqr users, not by GoConqr itself. A free account also saves your quiz scores and lets you create your own quizzes, mind maps, flashcards and notes.
Who is this unit for?
It is aimed at university students, and all the listed resources are at that level. Teachers can also use the quizzes, maps and flashcards as ready-made material for sessions on the visual pathway, spatial vision, colour or eye movements.
Is there anything on visual disorders?
Yes. Look at the mind map Visual Agnosias and the flashcard decks Visual disorders and Cerebral processing disorders. There is also a mind map on illusions and disorders of vision, which helps you link a deficit to the area of the brain involved.
What if I can't find the topic I need?
Try the neighbouring resources first, since topics such as the LGN, V1 and eye movements appear in several formats. If your topic is still missing, you can build your own mind map, flashcards or quiz from your lecture notes.