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Iris
- Dihalates pupil
- colored section
- part 2
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Lens
- Projects image on retina as upside down
- part 4
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Retina
- like a screen
- transduction
- contains rods and cones
- part 5
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Fovea
- center vision (cones)
- insidde of retina
- point of centeral focus
- part 6
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Cones
- color vision
- inside of retina
- concentrate at the center of the eye
- part 7
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Rods
- Perepheral and night vision
- black and white
- part 8
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Optic nerve
- hooks onto sensors to send msgs
- the stringy thingy
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Thalamus
- switchboard
- sends to visual cortex
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Occipital lobe
- inverts language
- flips image right side up
- discerns patterns
- part 11
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Where in the brain?
- Visual cortex
- Occipital lobe
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Transduction
- the process in which stimuli are translated into nerual impulses
- here, it happens in the retina
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