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15 Neuron and Vision Study Questions W13
15 Neuron and Vision Study Questions W13
15 Neuron and Vision Study Questions W13
1. If a neuron that starts with equal amounts of sodium (+) and chloride (-) ions outside and the same amounts of
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potassium (+) and A ions inside, what will happen if the cell becomes permeable to chloride?.
a. nothing
b. it will become negative inside
c. it will become positive inside.
2. Suppose one pinched a retinal ganglion cell so hard that it fired madly and then died. The most likely sensation of the
individual would probably be one of
a. light or shadow
b. touch and pain
c. both a and b.
4. Cortical V1 cells respond to short line segments in specific locations and having specific orientations. We showed in
lecture the circuit between thalamus and cortex that is thought to be the basis for this selective responsiveness. Suppose
that a given V1 neuron's best response is to the black bar shown as I in the figure at the right. If a black bar oriented as
shown in II were shown instead, how much would the recorded cell respond?
a. Not at all
b. A little bit
I
c. Just as much as it does to stimulus I. II
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Wavelength (nM)
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Suppose we mix a greenish-yellow light of 540 nM with a bright red light of 620 nM that is 4 times brighter than the
greenish-yellow light. What color will we see? The following two questions will lead you to the right answer, hopefully:
5. The greenish yellow light causes an excitation of the middle wavelength receptors of ______ and an excitation of the
longs of _____. The bright red light will cause an excitation of the longs of ______. Taken together the shorts will
have virtually no excitation and the longs will be excited about ____ overall. Thus, the longs are excited about _____
times the amount of the middles.
a. 7, 10, 8 X 4, 42, 2
b. 10, 10, 20 X 4, 30, 10
c. 6, 6, 12 X 4, 10, 2
d. 9, 9, 5 X 4, 29, 3
7. Suppose we mix yellow and blue lights of about equal intensity. What do we see?
a. green
b. colorless
c. yellow
d. red
e. pink
8. What prediction would you make from the wavelength dependence of visual receptor cells?
a. same thing
b. something different
c. the pattern of receptor cell activity does not match that produced by any wavelength of the spectrum.
11. The picture at the right has in it a square region in which the orientation is different
from that of the surround. Suppose one were recording from a V1 cell that responded to
lines that were located in this square region and that had an orientation tilted upward to
the right at an angle of about 45 degrees, as the lines in the little square are. Moreover,
suppose the picture were flashed on briefly and the subject were required to indicate
whether it did or did not see the little square. What pattern of activity would one expect to
see in the recorded cell in cases where the little square of differently oriented lines was
and was not seen?
a
b
c
d
e
0 240 0 240
13. EPSPs recorded in a dendrite near where the synapses that produced the EPSP are located will be _________ than
EPSPs recorded at the soma and those will be _________ than EPSPs recorded at the start of the axon.
a. larger, larger
b. larger, smaller
c. smaller, larger
d. smaller, smaller
14. How large are action potentials recorded where they begin compared to ones recorded at the end of an axon?
a. smaller
b. larger
c. same size