Mammalian vision
Mammalian vision is the process of
The recognition of visual stimuli in mammals is the result of the joint work of the eyes and the brain. At the same time, a significant part of the visual information is processed already at the receptor level, which allows to significantly reduce the amount of such information received by the brain. Elimination of redundancy in the amount of information is inevitable: if the amount of information delivered to the receptors of the visual system is measured in millions of bits per second (in humans - about 1×107 bits/s), the capabilities of the nervous system to process it are limited to tens of bits per second.
The organs of vision in mammals are, as a rule, well developed, although in their life they are of less importance than for birds: usually mammals pay little attention to immovable objects, so even cautious animals such as a
Mammalian eye
Like other
- 1 — sclera,
- 2 — uvea,
- 3 — schlemm's canal,
- 4 — iris root (Radix iridis),
- 5 — cornea,
- 6 — iris (anatomy),
- 7 — pupil,
- 8 — anterior chamber of eyeball,
- 9 — posterior chamber of eyeball,
- 10 — ciliary body,
- 11 — lens,
- 12 — vitreous body,
- 13 — retina,
- 14 — optic nerve,
- 15 — zonule of Zinn.
Literature
- Campbell, N. A.; Reece, J. B.; Urry, L. A. (2011). Biology. 9th ed. Benjamin Cummings. ISBN 9780321558237.
- Vaughan T. A., Ryan J. M., Czaplewski N. J. (2011). Mammalogy. 5th ed. Sudbury, Massachusetts: Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN 978-0-7637-6299-5.)
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