This document summarizes the visual system from the eye to the primary visual cortex in 6 sections. It describes the structures of the eye, retina, and process of visual transduction by rhodopsin in the retina. It then outlines the pathway from the retina through the lateral geniculate nucleus to the primary visual cortex, noting its retinotopic organization and two parallel pathways for processing color/fine detail and movement.
The eye is composed of a series of lenses and spaces that give focus to images, just as a camera does. It is composed of the vitreous humor, aqueous humor, the crystalline lens, and the cornea, and each of these has its own refraction index (the average being 1.34, because of the content of these tissues).Functions
Pupil. Opens and closes in order to regulate and control the amount of light.
Iris. Controls light level similar to the aperture of a camera.
Sclera. Protects the outer coat.
Cornea. A thin membrane which provides 67% of the eye's focusing power.
Crystalline lens. ...
Conjunctive. ...
Aqueous humour.
Vitreous humour.
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3. The Eyes
• Structure: review the major structures of
the eye (diagram given in class)
(note that the size of the pupils is a
compromise between sensitivity and acuity)
5. The Eyes
• ciliary muscles adjust the lenses to focus
visual images sharply on each retina,
regardless of the distance of the image from
eyes; this focusing is called acommodation
6. The Eyes
When we look at something near, the ciliary
muscles contract, tension on the lenses is
reduced, and they become more cylindrical
• When we look at distant object, the muscles
relax, tension on the lens is increased, and
the lenses flatten
7. The Eyes
• Binocular Disparity: unlike most
vertebrates, most mammals have two eyes
on the front of their heads, rather than one
on each side; this cuts down the field of
view, but it insures that most of what is seen
is seen through both eyes
8. The Eyes
• Because each eye sees things from a slightly
different perspective, there is a difference in the
two retinal images; this binocular disparity is
greater for closer things; the degree of binocular
disparity associated with a particular visual
stimulus helps the brain create a 3-D perception
from two 2-D retinal images thus depth perception
is partially achieved from this (remember, we can
still perceive depth with one eye closed)
9. The Retina
• Structure: five layers receptor layer;
horizontal cell layer; bipolar layer;
amacrine cell layer; and retinal ganglion
cell layer
(diagram in class)
• The receptor is the farthest from light;
therefore, incoming light is distorted by
four layers of neurons before reaching the
receptors
10.
11. The Retina
• The fovea is a pit about 330 micrometers in
diameter; it is the only part of the retina
capable of mediating high-acuity vision.
This is due, in part, to the fact that axons of
retinal ganglion cells are thinnest over the
fovea and light is distorted less before
reaching the layer of receptors. The fovea is
roughly in the center of your visual field.
12. The Retina
• The optic disk is where the axons of retinal
ganglion cells penetrate the retina and exit
the eye; the optic disk has no receptors thus
creating a blind spot
13. The Retina
• We all have a blind spot at the optic disk,
due to the exit of axons from the retinal
ganglion cells
14. The Eyes
• We are normally unaware of our blind spots, even
when looking through one stationary eye because
of completion; the visual system is able to use
visual information gathered from receptors around
the optic disk to complete the visual image
• Completion illustrates the creativity of the visual
system (demonstration in class)
15. The Retina
• Cone and Rod Vision: in a sense, each of
us has two visual systems; the photopic
system functions in lighted conditions; the
scoptopic system functions in dim light
16. The Retina
• Cones mediate photopic vision; rods
mediate scotopic vision; this is called the
duplexity theory of vision
• The photopic system mediates high-acuity
vision; the scotopic system mediates lowacuity vision
17. The Retina
• The photopic system has low sensitivity with few
receptors’ information combined at the next cell
level (low convergence)
• The scotopic system has high sensitivity with
many receptors converging on ganglion cells
(high convergence)
• Only cones in the fovea; rods predominate in the
periphery
18.
19. The Retina
• Our eyes are in continual motion; they
make a series of fixations (about 3 per
second) connected by saccades (rapid
movements between fixations)
20. The Retina
• Eye movements keep the visual image in
continual motion on the retina; the
importance of this movement is illustrated
by the fact that stabilized retinal images
disappear; most visual system neurons
respond to change, not to steady input
21. The Retina
• What we perceive at any instance is the sum
of the input that has been received during
the last few fixations; this temporal
integration of the retinal images explains
why our visual images are detailed, colored,
and wide-angled, despite the small size of
the fovea; it also explains why things don’t
disappear when we blink
22. Visual Transduction
by Rhodopsin
• Tranduction is the conversion of one form
of energy to another; the first step in visual
transduction is conversion of light to neural
signals by the rods and cones
23. Visual Transduction
by Rhodopsin
• Transduction by rods is well understood;
there is pink substance in rods called
rhodopsin; light is absorbed by rhodopsin,
and this bleaches it (removes its color); this
bleaching occurs because retinal and opsin,
the two components of rhodopsin, separate
in light
24. Visual Transduction
by Rhodopsin
• This bleaching reaction hyperpolarizes the rods,
thus the bleaching reaction tranduces light to a
cascade of intracellular events resulting in neural
signal
• When rhodopsin is totally bleached by intense
light, rods lose their ability to absorb light and
transduce; however, in the dark, retinal and opsin
are reunited, and rhodopsin regains its color and
its ability to absorb light and transduce
25. Visual Transduction
by Rhodopsin
• Rhodopsin is a G-protein linked receptor
that responds to light by initiating a cascade
of intracellular chemical events
• cGMP is an intracellular chemical that
keeps Na+ channels partly open when rods
are in darkness; rods are thus slightly
depolarized
26. Visual Transduction
by Rhodopsin
• Bleaching rods via exposure to light results
in an intracellular cascade of events that
deactivates cGMP, closing Na+ channels,
which hyperpolarizes the rod and reduces
the release of glutamate
• Rods thus transmit signals through the
neural system via inhibition
27. From Retina to
Primary Visual Cortex
• This is called the retina-geniculate-striate
pathway (diagram in class)
• The primary visual cortex is striate cortex
after the stripe seen in a Nissl-stained cross
section of lower layer IV; the stripe is
composed of the terminals of axons from
the lateral geniculate nuclei
28.
29. From Retina to
Primary Visual Cortex
• The retinal ganglion cell axons from the
nasal hemiretinas decussate via the optic
chiasm (they are contralateral); those from
the temporal hemiretinas remain
ipsilateral providing redundancy for the
system
30. From Retina to
Primary Visual Cortex
• The most important feature of visual cortex
organization is its retinotopic layout; the
surface of the visual cortex is a map of the
retina
31. From Retina to
Primary Visual Cortex
• The retina-geniculate-striate system
includes two largely independent channels:
The P pathway and the M pathway
32. From Retina to
Primary Visual Cortex
– Parvocellular layers (P pathway) are found in
the top four layers of each lateral geniculate
nucleus (LGN) and are composed of small body
neurons; they are responsive to color, fine
detail patterns, and react to slow or stationary
objects
– Magnocellular layers (M pathway) are found
in the bottom two layers of the LGN, composed
of large body neurons, and are responsive to
rods and movements