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Visual Perception Components |
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Optic nerve, optic chiasm, optic tract (thalamus), optic radiation |
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Where the optic nerve leaves the eye |
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Optic nerve: Retina to optic chiasm
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Optic tract: optic chiasm to thalamus (LGB)
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Optic radiation: thalamus to occipital lobe
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geniculocalcarine fibers
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External area visible to eyes without movement |
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Visual Pathways: Retina to optic nerve |
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Visual pathways: Optic nerve and beyond |
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Optic nerve (CN II)
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Optic tract fibers
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Geniculocalcarine fibers
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Occipital lobe
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Where does the right visual field end up?
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Where does the left visual field end up?
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What happens at the optic chiasm?
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Left hemisphere
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Right hemisphere
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partial crossover
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nasal field cross over
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temporal field stay ipsilateral
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RVF -> LH
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LVF -> RH
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Visual field defects: Monocular blindness |
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Visual field defects: Bi-temporal, heteronymous hemianopia |
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Visual field defects: Nasal hemianopia |
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Visual field defects: Homonymous hemianopia |
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Visual field defects: Homonymous R/L quandrantanopsia |
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Primary visual cortex lesions
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Cortical blindness |
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Lesion to visual cortex unilaterally -> blindness in opposite field of vision in each eye
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Central vision usually spared
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Cortical blindness: bilateral cortical lesions
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Visual assocation cortex lesions |
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Visual Processing pathways: What pathway |
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Ventral pathway
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To inferior temporal lobe
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Damage -> agnosias: inability to recognize objects, words, faces
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Visual processing pathways: Where pathway |
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Visual association cortex lesions: Definition and List |
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Difficulty recognizing an object due to perceptual deficit |
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Difficulty recognizing faces |
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Visual association cortex lesions: List |
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- Achromatopsia
- Akinetopsia
- Alexia without agraphia
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Difficulty recognizing colors |
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Difficulty recognizing movement |
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From top to bottom
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Monocular blindness
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Bi-temporal, heteronymous hemianopia
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Homonymous hemianopia
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Homonymous R/L quandrantanopsia
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Primary visual cortex lesionsdamage at the Striate cortex
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Visual field of left eye
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Visual field of right eye
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Temporal half of left retina
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Nasal halves of retinas
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Temporal half of right retina
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Optic Nerve
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Optic chiasm
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Optic Tract
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Geniculo-calcarine tract
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Lateral geniculate body
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Primary visual area or striate cortex
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inverted
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- Left visual field
- right visual field
- temporal
- nasal
- temporal
- optic chiasm
- pulvinar nucleus
- lateral geniculate nucleus
- superior colliculus
- optic radiation
- primary visual cortex
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