Can humans or non-human animals see in the dark?.
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Can humans or non-human animals see in the dark?
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NO……You need light!
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Light?
Waves of electromagnetic energy Photons: = discrete particles of energy
Travel in space at high speeds (186,000/second!)Measure in length nanometers (billionth of a meter)
So, we call these wavelenths
Visable to humans 380 – 760 nm
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Visible Spectrum of Wavelength - Humans
*snakes see infrared (too long for humans)
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Anatomy of the Eye
4. Iris: muscle, control of light intake, color (melanin)
5. Pupil: hole in iris --dilates/contract based on available light
10. Optic Nerve
6. Lens: adjusts the eye’sfocus (20%) accomdation
2. Cornea: covers iris & pupil focusing begins (80%)
3. Anterior Chamber (aqueous): clear fluid nutrients/shape
7. Vitreous Humor: gives eyeball shape
1. Sclera: covering of eye
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8. retina: transduction rods & cones
9. Fovea: acuity, cones
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Anatomy of the Eye Light entering the eye
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Lens of the eye inverts the visual image – Upper half of visual field projects onto the ventral portion of the retina …Lower half of visual field projects to the dorsal portion of the retina
Thank God (or whomever) that the visual cortex inverts it back to its original orientation!
The visual system is like a Camera
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Normal Vision
Problem in lens Cataracts protein clumping together
Problem in the macula (fovea)Macular Degeneration: loss of acuity and center vision
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Anatomy of the Eye - Retina
Retina: PhotoreceptorsTransduction of light
Into electrical chemical Message
Instead of NT Binding to receptor…
Light cause cascade of Intercellular messages
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Cell Layers in the Retina
…notice anything funky about the set up?
Ganglion Cell Axons form optic nerve
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Rods (scotopic)-responsible for night vision-very sensitive to light (low levels)-found in the periphery of retina- more than cones- Provide monochromatic info (Achromatic)- Provides poor acuity- Night blindness
Cones (photopic): -responsible for day vision (sensitive to mod-hi light) - found in fovea - provides greater acuity - trichromatic – color vision - legally blind (day blindness)
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All sensory info must under go a series of 3 steps (sight, sound, touch):
1. RECEPTION: Absorption of physical energy by a receptorlight PHOTORECEPTORS
2. TRANSDUCTION: Conversion of one form of energy to another
light electrical chemical message
3. CODING: The one-to-one correspondence with a stimuli and the nervous system activity AP send message to visual cortex
Conversion of light to neural signal: visual transduction
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Anatomy of the Eye – Blind Spot
blind spot
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The blind Spot
1 million nerve fibers
* Exercise in book (pg 139)
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Glaucoma: problem in the Anterior Chamber fluid there doesn’t drain correctly which puts pressure on the back of the eye especially the optic nerve
Damage to the optic nerve = Glaucoma
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Optic Tract1/2 axons go to right side of the brain1/2 go to left side of brain
Not the same in all animals – depending on location of eyes
Ex: Rabbits & Guinea Pigs
IPSI & CONTRALATERAL PATHWAYS
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How does the signal get to the Visual Cortex?
VIA the Retinal Ganglion Cell Axons
OPTIC TRACT
OPTIC TRACT