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Learning to Live with Low Vision
An introduction to the varied types of vision rehabilitation tests and interventions.
From MD Support (www.mdsupport.org)
Going Blind: documentary film
Going Blind is a unique documentary film that increases public awareness of sight loss and low vision issues profoundly affecting the li..
Low vision: an introduction
An introduction to what low vision is and hoe low vision services help people maximize their vision and love optimally.
Sensation & Perception: Top-Down & Bottom-Up Processing
There are two approaches to understanding the process of perception, including visual perception: top-down processing and bottom-up proces..
Why Do We See Illusions – Mark Changizi
Why can’t our extremely complex eyes render simple optical illusions? It comes back to the brain, which has only evolved to encounter natu..
Eye Works 1: Focusing: Cornea, Iris and Lens
How the Eye works to focus an image. The cornea, iris and lens structure and function in detail. Iris color, accommodation and cataracts. ..
Eye Works 2: Image: Retina, Optic Nerve and Brain
How the Eye Works 2. Vision, recording the image, retina, rods and cones, optic nerve, chiasm, visual Cortex and receptive fields. — Cra..
Visual processing in the brain
The process of visual processing from the rods and cones of the retina to the bipolar cells and then the ganglion cells.
Low vision rehabilitation
An overview from Chicago Lighthouse