After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the functions of structures within the eye.
• Illustrate the processing pathways of visual information from the eye up to cortical brain areas.
• Compare the major theories of color processing.
• Contrast the major theories of form processing.
• Discuss how visual information is segregated and reconstructed in the visual system.
• Identify how action potentials and synaptic transmission can produce a variety of visual experiences.
• Predict how damage to specific portions of the visual system will impact a person’s visual perceptions.