Optometry Science Fair Project

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Introduction This science fair project idea was developed by my interest in optometry. One day, I was sitting and was thinking about different eye colors. Then I wandered if eye color could affect peripheral vision. I began thinking about how I could test this and what I think would happen. That is how I developed this question. Background research This project mainly revolves around the concept of optometry, or the study of the human eye. More specifically, it revolves around peripheral vision and eye color. Peripheral vision is otherwise known as side vision. I know this from previous knowledge. A more elaborate definition is (4) the ability to see objects and movement outside of the direct line of vision. One thing that I needed information on is eye color. (2) “The colored …show more content…
(3) The retina is a filmy piece of tissue, barely half a millimeter thick that lines the inside of the eyeball. The tissue develops from a pouch of the embryonic forebrain, and the retina is therefore considered part of the brain. This most important part of the eye has a basic structure similar to that of a three-layer cake, with the bodies of nerve cells arrayed in three rows separated by two layers packed with synaptic connections. The retina includes both the sensory neurons that respond to light and intricate neural circuits that perform the first stages of image processing; ultimately, an electrical message travels down the optic nerve into the brain for further processing and visual perception. ” This information explains the retina’s job and how it coordinates with the human eye. It also gives the complex tasks that the retina demosrates when it works within the eye. To conduct this experiment, it requires to have a vision protractor to test and complete it. Through research, I found the overall vision protractor that works with all the
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