Chapter Objectives

After studying the material in this chapter, you should:

Know the organization of the retina.

Understand how light stimulus is transduced into a nervous impulse.

Be able to describe a receptive field and those cells represented by receptive fields.

Be able to describe the mechanism of lateral inhibition and its neural correlates.

Understand how a visual stimulus is projected to the visual cortex.

Understand the processes of the different higher-level visual cortices.

Know how the visual cortex is organized at the neural level.

Understand how the whole visual stimulus is integrated into the complete visual experience.

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