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  2. Optic radiation - Wikipedia

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    The function of the feedback from the visual cortex back to the LGN is unknown. The optic radiation is activated during working memory tasks. [3] The optic radiations are usually unilateral and commonly vascular in origin. Field defects, therefore, develop abruptly, in contrast to the slow progression of defects associated with tumors.

  3. Visual system - Wikipedia

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    The optic radiation; The visual cortex; The visual association cortex. These are components of the visual pathway, also called the optic pathway, [23] that can be divided into anterior and posterior visual pathways. The anterior visual pathway refers to structures involved in vision before the lateral geniculate nucleus. The posterior visual ...

  4. Optical radiation - Wikipedia

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    Optical radiation is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum with wavelengths between 100 nm and 1 mm. [1] [2] This range includes visible light, infrared light, and part of the ultraviolet spectrum. [3] Optical radiation is non-ionizing, [4] and can be focused with lenses and manipulated by other optical elements.

  5. Optics and vision - Wikipedia

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    The human eye is an organ which reacts to light for several purposes. As a conscious sense organ, the eye allows vision. Rod and cone cells in the retina allow conscious light perception and vision including color differentiation and the perception of depth. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million colors. [3]

  6. Visual phototransduction - Wikipedia

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    Visual phototransduction is the sensory transduction process of the visual system by which light is detected by photoreceptor cells (rods and cones) in the vertebrate retina.A photon is absorbed by a retinal chromophore (each bound to an opsin), which initiates a signal cascade through several intermediate cells, then through the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) comprising the optic nerve.

  7. Tectopulvinar pathway - Wikipedia

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    The tectopulvinar pathway is a fast-acting pathway that provides the viewer with information on the absolute spatial information of objects. The pathway plays a large role in directing visual spatial attention and is particularly responsive to novel stimuli that appear or move in peripheral vision; however, because it receives mostly magnocellular visual input, the tectopulvinar pathway is not ...

  8. Visual pathway lesions - Wikipedia

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    Retina→Optic nerve→Optic chiasma (here the nasal visual field of both eyes cross over to the opposite side)→Optic tract→Lateral geniculate body→Optic radiation→Primary visual cortex. The type of field defect can help localize where the lesion is located (see picture given in infobox).

  9. Optic tract - Wikipedia

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    It is composed of two individual tracts, the left optic tract and the right optic tract, each of which conveys visual information exclusive to its respective contralateral half of the visual field. Each of these tracts is derived from a combination of temporal and nasal retinal fibers from each eye that corresponds to one half of the visual ...