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Vision
You can’t always trust your eyes
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How many legs does this elephant have?
Color –Psychological sensation derived from the wavelength of visible light – color, itself, is not a property of the external world.
The Anatomy of Visual Sensation
• Visual cortex –Part of the brain – the occipital lobe –where visual sensations are processed.
From Sensory Organs to the Brain
The process of sensation can be seen as three steps:
Reception--the stimulation
of sensory receptor cells
by energy (sound, light,
heat, etc)
Transduction--transforming
this cell stimulation into neural impulses
Transmission--delivering this neural
information to the brain to be
processed
Transduction• Receptors –
Specialized neurons that are activated by stimulation and transduce (convert) it into a nerve impulse.
• Sensory pathway –Bundles of neurons that carry information from the sense organs to the brain.
Phototransduction:Conversion of light energy into neural impulses that the brain can understand.
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Wavelength (Hue)• Hue (color)
the color experienced.
• Wavelength isthe distance from the peak of one wave to the peak of the next.
• Intensity(perceived brightness,)is determined by the amplitude of the wavelength.
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Wavelength (Hue)
Different wavelengths of light resultin different colors.
Long wavelengthsShort wavelengths
Violet Indigo Blue Green Yellow Orange Red
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Intensity (Brightness)
Blue color with varying levels of intensity.As intensity increases or decreases, blue color
looks more “washed out” or “darkened.”
10http://www.youramazingbrain.org.uk/supers
enses/brightness.htm#
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VisibleSpectrum
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The Eye
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The Eye
1. Cornea: Transparent tissue where light enters the eye. (COVERS get it Cornea)
2. Iris: Muscle that expands and contracts to change the size of the opening (pupil) for light.
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The Lens
Lens: Transparent structure behind the
pupil that changes shape to focus images on the
retina.
Accommodation: The process by which the
eye’s lens changes shape to help focus near or far
objects on the retina.
• Retina –Light-sensitive layer at the back of the eyeball
• Blind spot: no receptors where information exits the eye
– The visual system uses information from cells around the blind spot for “completion,” filling in the blind spot
• Fovea: high acuity area at center of retina
The Retina
Optic nerve –Bundle of neurons that carries visual information from the retina to the brain.
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Test your Blind Spot
Use your textbook. Close your left eye, and fixate your right eye on the black dot. Move the page towards your eye and away from your eye. At
some point the car on the right will disappear due to a blind spot.
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A B
CD
1. Which, of the 4 choices above, is the human eye most likely to see as a bright blue color?
2. The lens of the eye changes shape to aide in focusing on near or far objects. This phenomenon is known as _______________________.
3. The muscle that expands and contracts the pupil, and also gives eyes their “color,” is
the ______________
4. The phenomenon that addresses how you can pick out your friend’s voice and
process what she is saying while surrounded by large numbers of other people carrying
on their own conversations is known as the _______________________________.
How We See: Are You Nearsighted or Farsighted?
▪ In people with normal
vision, both nearby and
faraway objects are
focused on the retina at
the back of the eye
▪ In nearsighted people,
faraway objects are
focused in front of the
retina
▪ In farsighted people,
nearby objects are
focused beyond the
retina
How we see – near and farsightedness
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Accommodation:The lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina.
Rods
tinted
yellow
Cones
tinted
purple
▪ Located in periphery of
retina, peripheral vision
▪ Function in dim light
▪ Detect black, white, and
grey, but not colors
▪ Does not detect detail
Rods
▪ Near center of retina
(fovea)
▪ Function in bright or day
light
▪ Detect fine detail
▪ Enable color perception
Cones
Photoreceptors