Sentences with phrase «through optic nerves»

Nerve signals from the eyes travel through optic nerves and split off to both sides of the brain.

«The brain at rest» is actually a hive of activity and what it's doing is trying to sort out information that comes in; I mean this is another, another thing that made Marcus Raichle curious about this, is we know, for instance, that six million bits of data go flowing in through your optic nerve from the environment around you, and then only 10,000 of those bits actually get to the brain's visual processing area and only a few hundred of those are involved in consciousness, and you know, the conscious processing associated with that visual activity.

These nerve cells, known as retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), use electrical impulses to send visual information — entering the eye through the optic nerve — to the brain where images are perceived.

Little bits of light pass directly through your optic nerve to your hypothalamus, which controls your biological clock.

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The disease puts pressure on the optic nerve through fluid build - up, and can irreversibly damage vision if not properly treated.

Several specimens of the species, Fuxianhuia protensa (left), contain dark areas within their eye stalks (see fossil, above right; gray areas in sketch, bottom right) that represent preserved clusters of neural tissue, including clumps along the optic nerve (labeled 1 through 3 in the sketch) and the brain (lowermost mass).

Freiwald showed that information from the monkey's optic nerves passes through a series of brain locations, each of which is less sensitive to face orientation than the last.

Millions of nerve fibers running from the ganglion cells dive through the eye's «blind spot» and form the optic nerve that carries impulses to the brain.

That connection may benefit those who have lost vision because of damage in the structures between the eye and the brain — the loss of an eye through trauma, for instance, or damage to the optic nerve.

Light actually travels through your eye's optic nerve to your SCN, where it signals your body's clock that it's time to wake up.

Light comes in through your eyes and travels up your optic nerves to the SCN, which is exquisitely sensitive to cycles of light and darkness.

In 20th Century Women, a far easier session on the optic nerves, Fanning plays a lustrous, restless, teenage sunflower in Santa Barbara who moves like a pop tune through air, teaches a young lad the proper dude way to smoke and swagger, and mimics the whimpering moans of male lust with fond disdain.