LAB NO 7

OPEN ENDED LAB

OBJECTIVE:
Observe the color vision of eye.

INTRODUCTION:
colour vision
Colour vision is the ability to distinguish among various wavelengths of light waves and to
perceive the differences as differences in hue. The normal human eye can discriminate among
hundreds of such bands of wavelengths as they are received by the colour-sensing cells (cones)
of the retina. There are three types of cones, each of which contains a distinctive type of
pigment; one cone absorbs longer wavelengths (red light), another middle wavelengths (green
light), and the third type shorter wavelengths (blue-violet light). A given colour stimulates all
three types of receptors with varying effectiveness, and the pattern of these responses
determines the colour perceived.

Ishihara’s coloured plates:

➔ Are made up of coloured numbers or spots on a background of identical shaped colored
spots.
➔ The figures or numbers are intentionally made up of colors that are likely to look the same as
the background to an individual who is color blind.

COLOR BLINDNESS CAUSED BY BRAIN DAMAGE:

Cortical colour blindness is caused by brain damage to the ventro-medial occipital and temporal
lobes. A possible explanation is that the pathway responsible for transmitting information
about wavelength and its subsequent elaboration as colour has been destroyed at the cortical
level.

Procedure :
1. select the eye to be tested and close the other eye.
2. ask the subject to read the number in several plates or ask them to trace the zigzag pathway
with his index finger.
3. note if the subject has difficulty ot fails to read the number or trace the path in the plates.
4. survey all members of your group for color blindness.
5. record the data in the table provided.
CONCLUSION: