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    The portion of light visible to humans is very tiny in comparison to the spectrum of electromagnetic

    energy. For other living organisms such as bee, dogs and cats, they have a large or different portions of
    the spectrum.

    Wavelength determines our hue and intensity determines the brightness of the light. The
    brightness is also determined based on the height/amplitude of the light wave.
    pupils lens

    rods &
    ganglion
    cones bipolar cells
    cells

    optic nerve thalamus?


    We have a blind spot because there is a point around where
    our optic nerve leaves the eye and it is a point where no
    receptor cells exist to perceive images and enable vision.

    More cones are found around the fovea than rods. Noctural animal vision is different
    from humans most likely because they have more rods in comparison to humans
    hence why they can see in the dark so well.

    1) Rods enable black, gray, and white images in dark and dim
    rooms whereas cones give color to images in brighter rooms

    2) Rods share bipolar cells and cones have their own bipolar
    cells that relay messages to the visual cortex

    3) Rods are used in darker/night settings and cones are used


    in brighter and daytime settings
    Feature detectors are located in the brain and they are responsible for
    responding to stimuli in the environment that can include shape, angle, or
    movement which can help portray a whole image or what it is they are
    staring at.

    We are able to tell if a person is looking at a shoe, chair or face based off
    of the areas that are activated when they look at something and the
    patterns of their brain activity.

    Parallel processing allows us to take in the aspects of a visual scene. It does this because our brain divides a
    visual scene into sub-dimensions consisting of color, depth, form, and motion and work on each part at the
    same time. If a person is walking towards me on the street, my brain is able to process what color it is they
    are wearing, their height, how far they are away from me, and detect that they are indeed walking.

    Parallel processing can be related to blindsight because people are able


    to determine the position (horizontal vs. vertical) of a stick they cannot
    see. In addition to this, parallel processing sees what our conscious
    cannot and relates to dual processing.

    Young-Helmholtz experimented with three primary light wave colors (blue, red, yellow) which revealed that our
    retina indeed so receive these three specific light wave colors through specific color receptors and when our cones
    combine these colors, we get to see other colors. It helps explain color blindness as a problem where people lack
    red and green cones and other cones may not function as it is intended to do so.

    Hering’s opponent-process theory suggests that opposing retinal processes with


    pairings of red/green, yellow/blue, and white/black enable us to see color. It
    introduces the idea of neurons being turned on by red and off by green and that
    the cones we see are one of the colors in the pair.
    red-green color deficiency

    males

    1 in 50

    When we stare at the yellow and green flag, we tire our response to those two
    colors. When we look at the white, its “opponent” color is then visible hence why
    we tend to see blue and red.

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