Are your eyes playing tricks on you?
A review of Anatomy
Have you ever wondered how your eyes worked? How you see things? How colors appear to you? And what you actually aren’t seeing? There are many different ways our eyes work, and thankfully everyone’s eyes are different in their own way. Doctors today are still finding out new things about how our eyes work, and new ways to fix our eyes so we can see better, or even fix little in corrections our eyes make. Have you ever looked at an object in front of you and still were able to see more objects around it, but not clearly? Those inconveniences are called blind spots. Many people are unaware about blind spots in their eyes, or what colors their eyes are actually seeing. A blind spot is a gap in your vision that causes you to see things out of the corner of your eyes, or see everything at once that can sometimes occur blurry to some people. Most of everyone has a blind spot in their eyes, and don’t even notice it. This anatomy review considers whether you have blind spots in your eyes, and how well you notice things with your eyes. I will answer the following questions:
1. How our eyes work?
2. Why do we see things the way we do?
3. What parts in our eyes help us see?
4. Does everyone have a blind spot?
5. What is a blind spot?
Understanding how our eyes work can be a really interesting thing. Many people don’t realize vision actually begins when light rays are reflected off an object that then enters the eye through the cornea. The cornea is a transparent bulge, in the front of our eyes that allows us to begin refraction. The cornea is one of the most important things in our eyes that allow us to see the things we do. After the reflected light rays enter the cornea, they then p...
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...imply located in our eyes, and for good reasons this is why it is a very good thing that everyone has a blind spot.
This picture is a picture showing where your vertebrates are and your octopus. They show different kinds of blinds spots such as: cephalopod eyes. Cephalopod eyes are where the optic nerve approaches the receptors from behind the eye. This creates vertebrate eyes where nerve fibers block light creating a blind spot. The octopus eyes are where the nerve fibers completely block the light from the retina. Now that you have learned how our eyes work, and everything about our eyes, you are now considered an expert!
Works Cited
http://www.aoa.org/patients-and-public/resources-for-teachers/how-your-eyes-work
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1131648 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_(vision) http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chvision.html
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Open-angle glaucoma - With this form of glaucoma, the loss of vision occurs so gradually it is rarely noticed. However, as eye damage increases, you will eventually find that you have lost a lot of areas of your peripheral vision, especially the field of vision near your nose. As larger areas of your peripheral vision fade, you may develop tunnel vision -- vision that has narrowed so you see only what is directly in front of you. If glaucoma is not treated, even this narrowed vision disappears into blindness. Once gone, areas of lost vision canno...
And the retina. These are all on the wall of the eyeball, the fibrous tunic consist of
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Macular degeneration in general can affect many people in minor or drastic ways. People who experience this form often complain of vision loss when they are in dim light, especially when they are reading. The "dry" type is often characterized by a more gradual loss of vision compared to the "wet" type. Signs of this disease include an increase in drusen, which is an accumulation of a yellow-white substance, in the underside of the macular retina. A loss of cells can be seen in the macula. The macula is our sensitive sight region, where intricate detail can be seen. Thus, vision in this area is helpful and necessary to drive, read, focus on small details, and recognize familiar faces. The macula is located in the back of the eye known as the retina. The macula is only about 5 mm in diameter, and includes the fovea, which gives us our detailed central vision. If a person suffers from the "dry" form in one eye they will be more likely to develop it in the other eye as well.
First of all, an octopus is a cellapod. Which means it has a soft body, and no bones. An octopus also has eight arms, large useful eyes, and suction cups. ( Octopuses and Squid, page 6 by: Tori Miller.) All of these traits are mostly used for hunting. Eight arms come in handy when your prey is fast and can get away easily, large eyes are useful when you need to see in the dark or the depths of the ocean, and suction cups are used when they need to grab hold of something.( Octopuses Squid, page 14.) ( National Geographic, Octopus Facts.) Octopuses have blue blood caused by copper and bag like bodies. When born they're 1/4 of an inch and don't rely on...
Human beings rarely contemplate the significance of their own blind spot, a place where processes of neurons join together and form the optic nerve; it is here that the brain receives no input from the eye about this particular part of the world. What I discovered while entertaining myself with a simple eye exam aimed at divulging the capabilities of the brain in the face of the eyes blind spots was fundamental in my exploration of the trust we place in vision, and so I will explain it briefly. Our brain can ignore a dot that exists on the page and "fill" the spot with the color of its surroundings, no matter what the color. However, it is not that our brain cannot conceive of an image or of a shape to fill this place. Continuing with the experiment leads you to find that the brain will continue the line that is obstructed with the black dot, covering the sides of the dot in the surrounding color, and transforming the image before you into a line within your brain. A line that is absolutely not there.
We see the world around us because of the way our eyes bend (refract) light.
The Eye is the organ of sight. Eyes enable people to perform daily tasks and to learn about the world that surrounds them. Sight, or vision, is a rapidly occurring process that involves continuous interaction between the eye, the nervous system, and the brain. When someone looks at an object, what he/she is really seeing is the light that the object reflects, or gives off.