PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ganglion Cell, Occipital Lobe, Retina
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Section 5: basics of sensation and perception: the eye. Is a muscle that controls how much light enters the eye. Where light enters the interior portion of the eye. Changes shape to allow things to come into focus. Visual accommodation- process by which the shape and thickness of the eye changes to focus on object. Lens doesn"t function properly, corrective lenses are needed for clear sight and make up for deficiency of the lens. Whenever the light gets to the retina it becomes a neural impulse. Considered the last stop for light in the retina. Image is received upside down in the back of the eye because the light is diffracted but the brain flips it back over. Inner edge of the back of the eye. Axons of them form the optic nerve. Optic nerve takes the neural impulse and takes it to the. Connect the ganglion cells to the rods and cones.
