Brain and EEG
This contains your brain and spinal cord.
Central Nervous System
True or false: What we see in your right eye is processed by the left side of your brain and vice versa.
True
The Snellen eye chart is most commonly used to determine what?
Visual acuity
Which part of your ear is vital for equilibrium?
Internal ear
What does your automatic nervous system do?
Controls smooth muscles and cardiac muscles and glands. (Everything that is automatic must work for you to live!)
_____________ help us see color and at night.
Photoreceptors
Myopic
Your ____________ is the part of your ear that is responsible for your hearing.
Cochlea
Brain waves are measured in what unit?
Hz
Your eye is enclosed by what?
A layer of fat and the bony orbit.
What is your blind spot?
The site where the optic nerve exits the eyeball.
Your bony labyrinth is located inside what bone?
Temporal bone
What does an EEG do?
Records electoral activity of the brain.
_________________ keeps your retina pressed firmly against the wall of the eyeball.
Scleral Venus Sinus
Predators, like humans, have binocular vision. This provides ___________________.
Depth perception
The bony labyrinth contains what?
Semicircular canals, vestibule, cochlea
What can cause changes in brain wave patterns?
Age, sensory stimuli, brain pathology, chemical state of the body, health, etc.
What is your optic nerve?
A bundle of fibers that contain your ganglion cell layer, bipolar cell layers, rods and cones.
Irregularities in the curvatures of the lens/cornea that lead to blurred vision is called what?
Astigmatism
The bony labyrinth is filled with an aqueous fluid called _______________. While your membranous labyrinth is filled with a viscous fluid called _____________.
Perilymph; endolymph