Follow the textbook
Open each page after you read it. Use the yellow main idea, orange term connections, pink figure or example, and blue concept connection. Lesson explanations are linked to the corresponding page, without inventing exact textbook quotations.
Uploaded Chapter 5.2 and 5.3 textbook photos plus the Vision 3/4 lecture transcript are the source for this companion.
Chapter 5.2 · How the Brain Processes Visual Information
Chapter 5.3 · Parallel Processing in the Visual Cortex
Study it together
Big pathway
Retina → optic nerve/chiasm/tract → LGN → V1 → ventral/dorsal processing.
Key comparisons
ON vs OFF; simple vs complex vs end-stopped; WHAT vs ACTION; visual agnosia vs anomia; MT vs MST.