What is perception?
The way the eyes see an object that's detected by the eye?
The way the brain makes sense of the visual image that's detected by the eye?
What do the rods in the eyes do?
Detect colour?
Detects light, even in really dim light.
What does the optic nerve do? and where is it?
transfers information from the rods and cones to the brain via the optic nerve. It's located at the back of the eye.
transfers information from the rods and cones to the brain via the optic nerve. It's located near the front of the eye, going upwards.
It's located at the back of the eye and transfers information from just the rods to the brain via the optic nerve.
transfers information from just the cones to the brain via the optic nerve. located in the middle of the eye
What do cones do?
Detect light, even in really dim light?
Which cell would you use to detect a bird flying at night?
Cone
Rod
Where are the light-sensitive cells in the eyes?
Back and front
Sides
Middle and back
Centre and edge
Which cell would you use to detect the colour of the bird in bright daylight?
Where is the blind spot?
Where the optic nerve leaves?
The sides of the eyes
The cross-shape where some of the information from the left and right eye crosses over to pass into the opposite side of the brain. What is the cross shaped area called?
Optic nerve
Optic Chiasma
What is the visual cortex?
The area at the back of the brain that interprets visual information.
The area at the right-hand of the brain that interprets movement.
Size Constancy......?
Perceiving an object as the same size even when its distance from us changes.
Perceiving an object as bigger or smaller than it originally was when the distance changes
