PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Parietal Lobe, Optic Disc, Receptive Field
14 Apr 2016
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Pure light = light made up of a single wavelength. Desaturated = e. g. natural light you experience will more likely be a combinaion of many wavelengths; not pure; mixture of wavelengths and less intense than pure colors. Tiny porion of total range of wavelengths of electromagneic radiaion that we"re sensiive to; only from a human perspecive. Other species see light outside our visible spectrum (e. g. bees see wavelengths shorter than. 360nm in the ultraviolet spectrum can perceive diferent colors of lowers that look same to us; snakes see light with longer than 750nm in the infrared spectrum ind prey in dark by seeing body heat emited by prey) Shortest wavelength we can see= 360 nm (looks violet) **infrared light is lower in frequency and longer in wavelength than light making up visible spectrum. Light passes through curved cornea (begins focusing process) * cornea= a transparent window at front of eye.
