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Sight

The document summarizes how vision works. The retina contains rods and cones, which are photoreceptors. Rods provide black and white vision and are more sensitive in low light conditions. Cones detect color and are concentrated in the fovea and macula for sharp central vision. Stereoscopic vision comes from the slight differences between the images seen by each eye. The optic nerve passes through the retina, creating the blind spot where there are no photoreceptors. Light enters the eye and stimulates rods and cones, sending signals to the brain for interpretation and perception of sight.

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Sight

The document summarizes how vision works. The retina contains rods and cones, which are photoreceptors. Rods provide black and white vision and are more sensitive in low light conditions. Cones detect color and are concentrated in the fovea and macula for sharp central vision. Stereoscopic vision comes from the slight differences between the images seen by each eye. The optic nerve passes through the retina, creating the blind spot where there are no photoreceptors. Light enters the eye and stimulates rods and cones, sending signals to the brain for interpretation and perception of sight.

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Sight

-retina = photosensitive layer


= contains rods and cons + nerve fibres

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Rods and cones
-secondary receptors
-photoreceptors

- achromatic/ black and white vision (sensitive to low light) -color vision
-many rods share one neuron -3 types (red, gree, blue) = trichromatic vision
-useful during night vision -1 cone = 1 neuron (provide more info)
-useful for orientation in space in the dark -hightest concentration = yellow spot (place of the
sharpest vision)
-highest concentration = in the edge of retina

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Stereoscopic vision

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The fovea
-rods and cones mostly buries under blood vessels, nerve fibre

FOVEA
-opposite of lens
-cones only
-in the center of yellow spot

-visual detail (reading, driving)

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Foveal vision

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Blind spot
-lack of photoreceptor cells on retina
-optic nerve passes through

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But how?
the sunlight (light waves) bounces off an object -- through lens -- to the back of an eye
--rods and cones exposed to light – action potential – info goes to the vision center
(occipital lobe)

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Rods Cones
-contain photosensitive pigment rodopsin -contain photosensitive pigment iodopsin
(proteins opsin+retinal)

- light = retinal changes shape - Breaks down only in bright light


- retinal + opsin break apart - action potential
- action potential - brian interprets patterns of color
- brian interprets patterns of dark/light

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Myopia
-short-sightness
-distant objects = out of focus

-biconcave lenses

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Hyperopia
-far-sightness
-nearby objects = out of focus

-refractive lenses

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Questions?

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