The Brain: Structures and Functions

AP Psychology· difficulty 4/5

Hubel and Wiesel discovered that visual cortex neurons

  • A

    Process the entire visual scene as one unified holistic image

  • B

    Fail to respond to lines, edges, or oriented contours at all

  • C

    Respond to specific features (e.g., edges at certain orientations)

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  • D

    Have no consistent specialization for particular visual features

Explanation

Feature detectors (edges, lines, motion) build up complex perception.

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