The Visual System
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Vision – a first look
Unless we have a serious impairment to our visual system, vision appears quite simple. Wherever we look we see an endless stream of visual..
Our visual system
When your vision is changing, it can be helpful to know something about the visual system itself, as well as where in the system problems arise. Understanding how the visual system functions will help you recognize and respond to problems with your vision.
Aspects of vision
There’s more to vision than just your acuity number. Ativities of daily living rely on visual components such as contrast sensitivity, visual field, color perception, stereoscopic acuity, dark adaptation, fixation and more.
Our mental model of the world
The primary function of the visual system is to assist in interactions with our environment by recognizing the nature of t..
From sensation to perception
Under development
The information falling on our eyes is inherently ambiguous, yet we typically construct a sufficiently accurate perce..