Phosphenes are an experience of seeing light without light entering your eye. Bionic eye recipients use these to map out a visual scene.
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The artificial vision provided by a bionic eye is not like natural sight, and takes a lot of getting used to.
Color-changing cells in an Atlantic squid’s skin contain light-sensitive pigments.
Alexandra Kingston
We’re used to thinking of our eyes detecting light as the foundation of our visual system. But what’s going on in other cells throughout the body that can detect light, too?
How do you see the world?
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How we see the world depends on certain aspects of our personality.
Eyeglasses: Put the market in perspective.
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Why are eyeglasses so expensive? You can thank two massive industry comglomerates, Luxottica and Essilor.
Megalopta genalis .
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Nocturnal insects have eyes that act like cameras to enhance their light-gathering abilities.
375 million years ago fishes like Tiktaalik (pictured, above) looked out above water for prey.
John Long, Flinders University
The first truly terrestrial animals evolved from ancient fishes that left the water for land. But what prompted to move has been a mystery.
Dusk during the second day of the day-night Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and New South Wales at the Gabba, Brisbane, in October 2016.
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New research shows pink cricket balls can be extra difficult to see in those crucial minutes when day turns to night during play.
The way someone with glaucoma sees.
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Glaucoma is the sneak thief of sight, affecting the eyesight of more than 50 million people worldwide. It remains the biggest preventable cause of blindness today.
The pathway from eye to brain begins in the retina, where light is converted into neuronal signals.
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Light arriving from the right visual field is processed in the brain’s left hemisphere. So damage to the left part of the primary visual cortex will result in blindness in the right visual field.
Cataracts are one of the leading causes of visual impairment globally.
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More than a million Australians have an untreated cataract and hundreds of cataract surgeries are performed daily, but what are they?
How much information is too much? And where should it go?
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Augmented reality systems need to display relevant information in a useful location. That’s impossible without eye tracking.
What makes your brain go all-in on what it thinks you’re seeing?
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How does your brain deal with the ambiguous and variable visual information your eyes collect? Neuroscientists think it bets on what’s the most likely version of reality.
Myrmecia croslandi ant carrying its prey backwards.
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The navigation tactics of certain Australian ants could point the way to helping driverless cars find their way around.
Children with albinism often have poor eyesight, so classroom seating plans are important.
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In Tanzania, where albinism is common, there’s plenty that ordinary teachers can do to support students with albinism – much of it quite simple.
But I asked for green highlights!
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There must be some evolutionary force acting to maintain this visual ‘defect’.
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Pretty much all of our perception is an illusion, whether we’re walking down the street or attempting to decode the latest card trick.
Disney’s WALL.E needed to see all the rubbish on Earth so it could clean it up.
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Robots that can learn to ‘see’ the world around them – and share their learning with other robots – will lead the next revolution in robotics.
Australian bowler Mitchell Marsh receives the pink ball during the Test match between Australia and New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval.
AAP Image/Dave Hunt
The pink ball introduced to this year’s day night cricket test can be difficult to see for some players, especially if they are colour blind. There is a better choice of colour.
You see with your brain, not just your eyes.
Amarpreet K
Sure, your eyes are crucial for seeing the world around you. But it’s your brain that does the really hard vision work.
Me, myself and eye.
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The middle part of our vision sees in a much higher resolution than at the peripheries. But that’s just the beginning …