The eyes and seeing

Series: Biology Series Unit 8 - Human Physiology

Duration: 0:19:59

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Lane Education Service District: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses close-up photography, models, and drawings to explain how the eye receives, focuses, and transmits a visual image to the brain. Includes a descriptive examination of the cornea, iris, pupil, lens, ciliary muscle, rods, cones, optic nerve, and optic chiasma. Shows laboratory experiments designed to plot the relationship of photo receptor locations and the brain cells involved in the process of seeing. Discusses perception in terms of inborn and learned facilities. , The structure of the eye and the functions of its parts. Experiments with animals in visual perception. Some of the problems to be solved in determining how the brain evaluates and acts on visual information.

Complete Record: , The structure of the eye and the functions of its parts. Experiments with animals in visual perception. Some of the problems to be solved in determining how the brain evaluates and acts on visual information., Uses close-up photography, models, and drawings to explain how the eye receives, focuses, and transmits a visual image to the brain. Includes a descriptive examination of the cornea, iris, pupil, lens, ciliary muscle, rods, cones, optic nerve, and optic chiasma. Shows laboratory experiments designed to plot the relationship of photo receptor locations and the brain cells involved in the process of seeing. Discusses perception in terms of inborn and learned facilities.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


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