According to the description in chapter two, the retina is an outgrowth of the _____.
Vision requires the activity of both the _____ and the _____.
- Brain
The optic nerve is made up of the _____ of the ganglion cells of the retina.
A small number of the axons in the optic nerve reach the _____ and the _____ nucleus via the brachium of the superior colliculus.
- Pretectal
The overwhelming majority of the axons in the optic nerve synapse in the _____ of the _____.
- Thalamus
As noted in chapter 34, each lateral geniculate nucleus receives information about the _____ visual field from ganglion cells in both retinas.
Ganglion cells in the right halves of both retinas send information about the _____ visual field to the _____ lateral geniculate nucleus.
- Ipsilateral
Axons from the _____ half of the left retina must cross over in the optic chiasma to reach the _____.
- Right lateral geniculate nucleus
Since the _____ nucleus of the hypothalamus is just above it, the optic chiasma must be just _____ to the pituitary stalk which descends below the arcuate nucleus.
- Anterior (rostral)
Each of the optic tracts that run from the optic chiasma to the lateral geniculate nuclei is made up of 50% axons from the _____ side of the ipsilateral retina and 50% axons from the _____ side of the contralateral retina.
- Ipsilateral
Because the lens system of the eye reverses and _____ the image, information about the right visual field reaches the _____ lateral geniculate nucleus through the _____ optic nerve and the _____ optic tract.
Information about the upper visual field reaches the _____ half of each lateral geniculate nucleus in the ipsilateral _____.
- Optic tract
The lower half of each lateral geniculate nucleus projects visual information from the _____ half of the visual field to the lower half of the ipsilateral posterior occipital cortex, Brodmann area 17.
The upper half of each lateral geniculate nucleus projects visual information from the _____ half of the visual field to the upper half of the ipsilateral posterior occipital cortex, Brodmann area 17.
Brodmann area _____ is the primary visual cortex.
The primary visual cortex, Brodmann area _____, is the posterior third of the _____ lobe.
- Occipital
The primary visual cortex is often called the calcarine cortex because its medial surface is split into upper and lower halves by the _____ sulcus.
The calcarine artery, which is a branch of the posterior cerebral artery, usually runs in the opening of the _____ sulcus.
The primary visual cortex is completely dependent on the _____ for its blood supply unless there is an anastomosis with an occipital branch of the middle cerebral artery on the lateral surface of the occipital lobe.
The half of each primary visual cortex above the _____ receives visual information about the _____ half of the _____ visual field.
The upper half of each lateral geniculate nucleus projects to the _____ half of the _____ calcarine cortex through the superior geniculocalcarine tract.
- Ipsilateral
The half of each primary visual cortex below the _____ receives visual information about the _____ half of the _____ visual field.
The lower half of each lateral geniculate nucleus projects to the _____ half of the _____ calcarine cortex through the inferior geniculocalcarine tract.
- Ipsilateral
When the temporal lobe grew down from the _____ lobe during the first trimester it took a loop of the _____ geniculocalcarine tract with it.
- Ipsilateral