PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Stirrup, Cornea, Semicircular Canals

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Detect fine detail and give rise to colour sensations: light energy triggers chemical changes that activate bipolar cells, the bipolar cells activate ganglion cells forms the optic nerve, optic nerve: the nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain, blind spot: the point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye, creating a blind spot because no receptor cells are located there, fovea: the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye"s cones cluster, cones cluster in/around the fovea, cones have a direct connection to the brain these connections preserve the cones" precise information, rods don"t have a hotline to the brain they share bipolar cells with rods and send combined messages to the brain, rods and cones provide a special sensitivity rods are sensitive to faint light and cones are sensitive to detail and colour.