Essay On The Blind Spot

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Can You See That? How About Now? Dakota Lepard Simpson County Academy Can You See That? In the late 1660’s a scientist, Edme Mariotte, discovered the “blind spot’ in the eye. Edme noticed a hole in the eye , the optic disc, with a nerve going through it and found that it was the blind spot. Edme is the first remembers scientist to discover the blind spot. He is often remembered for his study of optics and color perception. Edme made many more discoveries in the science fields. Although Edme did not believe the blind spot was in the retina, he was the first scientist to recognize there was something weird in the eye, at which at some point you could not see an entire image, also known as the blind spot. In the vision field the blind spot is call “Mariotte’s Spot” (Edme Meriotte (1620-1684): Pioneer of Neurophysiology, n.d.). The human eye has a natural blind spot that is completely unavoidable. This spot is where the optic nerve, sending what is being seen, connects to the brain. This nerve passes through the retina causing what is called the “blind spot”. The “blind spot” is a hole being created in the light sensitive tissue. While the image being seen is being sent to the brain it will …show more content…

The optic nerve is the cause of the “blind spot”. This blind spot is referred to as an Optic Disc. The optic disc is a hole in the back of the eye that is where the optic nerve exits the eye to go into the brain. This hole, unlike the retina surrounding, is in need of light or contains sensitive photoreceptors. The optic disc is on the nasal side of the eye, about fifteen degrees to the part of the eye that one points towards things when we center in on. Since the optic disc, or blind spot, is located on the nasal side of the eye, the visual side, not containing a blind spot, is in the right side of the right eye and the left side of the left eye (JENNETT, C.,

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