Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Visual system structure
- Lens.
- Accommodation inefficient = poor focus
- Retina
- Rods & cones sense light & colour
- Cones migrate to forvea in early months, improving
perception of colour & detail
- Optic nerves
- Formed but not myelinated til 3 mth.
- Transmission of info slow
- O.N. terminate in lateral geniculate nucleus
- Lateral geniculate nucleus
- Complex structure at base of brain
- Retinal image mapped into LGN, enhances detail
- Mature by 12 mth
- Visual cortex
- Different cells respond to different features
- Light, dark, lines, size, colour & movement