It's 5:45 am when your alarm clock sounds. You roll out of bed and walk into your kitchen where you find your dog. She stops as she walks towards you to greet you good morning. To get a better look at your surroundings, you turn on a lamp in the kitchen to light up the kitchen so that you and your dog can see a little better, but nothing too bright because neither of you are prepared yet this early in the morning. As you pour your dog's breakfast and set it on the floor, you see her eyes focus on the food and proceed to run towards the bowl. Which of the following is true about your dog's ability to integrate what she is seeing in your kitchen?

1. Rhodopsin is not stimulated and therefore her rods have a membrane potential that is more negative than threshold.
2. More action potentials are traveling from her thalamus to the retina for visual processing.
3. More glutamate is released by her rods leading to enhanced stimulation of bipolar and ganglion cells.
4. Information from your dog's right visual field is processed in her left occipital lobe.

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