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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