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NewsLink: Vision

This assignment will help you make connections between the science of biopsychology and your daily life, and keep you apprised of the latest developments in the field. You will search BioPsychology NewsLink ( 3e.mindsmachine.com/news) for a media article related to the Vision chapter. You can search by keyword using the chapter's key terms in the list below, or click on the links by chapter. You can also enter one of the keywords on Google (news tab). Once you find a layperson article you're interested in, complete your journal entry by answering the six assignment questions.

Assignment

The journal is not a paper! Aim for one sentence per prompt. Work offline in a word processing program, but cut and paste your answers into the text box. Kindly do not attach a document. 

1. What keyword did you search?

2. What is the article about?

3. How was the research conducted?

4. What results caught your eye?

5. What conclusions can you draw?

6. What is the link to your article?

Key Terms

accommodation

amacrine cell

amblyopia

binocular

bipolar cell

blind spot

blindsight

brightness

ciliary muscle

complex cortical cell

cone

convergence

cornea

extraocular muscle

extrastriate cortex

fovea

ganglion cell

horizontal cell

hue

iris

lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)

lateral inhibition

lens

myopia

occipital cortex

off-center bipolar cell

off-center ganglion cell

off-center/on-surround

on-center bipolar cell

on-center ganglion cell

on-center/off-surround

opponent-process hypothesis

optic ataxia

optic chiasm

optic disc

optic nerve

optic radiation

optic tract

photopic system

photoreceptor

photoreceptor adaptation

primary visual cortex (V1)

pupil

range fractionation

receptive field

refraction

retina

rhodopsin

rod

saturation

scotoma

scotopic system

simple cortical cell

spatial-frequency model

spectrally opponent cell

topographic projection

transduction

trichromatic hypothesis

visual acuity

visual field

wavelength