Essays Tagged: "Visual acuity"

Elderly Drivers.

helps drivers to be sensitive to what is happening on the roadways around them.Secondly, An annual visual acuity test should be given to the elderly. The elderly are not tested periodically so more o ... test should be given to the elderly. The elderly are not tested periodically so more often than not visual changes occur and go undetected. Passing a simple eye-test should guarantee clear sight. But ...

(2 pages) 146 1 4.6 Dec/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Hemispheric Dominance of the Brain and Its Effect on Visual Acuity and Motor Response -- split brain state, callosal agenesis, controlled experiment.

Running Head: HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCEHemispheric Dominance of the Brainand Its Effect on Visual Acuity and Motor ResponseJoe WilsonMillsaps CollegeAbstractSeven volunteers were studied to s ... onMillsaps CollegeAbstractSeven volunteers were studied to show the effects of split-brain state on visual acuity and motor response. The results indicated that the right eye is strongly dominant in r ... ed that the right eye is strongly dominant in relation to decision time when required to identify a visual image.Hemispheric Dominance of the Brainand Its Effect on Visual Acuity and Motor ResponseSpl ...

(3 pages) 62 0 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Human Eye

(2 pages) 37 0 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Human Vision Defects,What is 20/20 Vision?

Visual DefectsWhat does 20/20 Vision mean?Visual acuity is expressed as a fraction. The top number r ...

(3 pages) 74 3 4.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

How Teens Get That Way

n a family newspaper. Parents' witness their beloved's little mind expand, watching oral eloquence, visual acuity and coordination evolve for years. This makes a long series of challenges for adults r ...

(2 pages) 27 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Visual Impairment

IntroductionDown's Syndrome Vision Research Group defines Visual impairment as a reduction in vision because of a disorder or disease of the eye or brain. A p ... ction in vision because of a disorder or disease of the eye or brain. A person is considered to be "visually impaired" when their visual acuity is 20/70 or less in the better eye with best correction, ... ye. Having 20/70 vision means that a person can see an object or symbol at 20 feet away while a non-visually impaired individual can see that same object or symbol 70 feet away.Students with visual im ...

(9 pages) 39 1 3.5 Apr/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The Meaning of Being Human

ght about included “particulars like writing and money and metallurgy to abstractions like ... visual acuity, and anonymity” (Reilly, 32).The advent of food production enabled man’s mov ... ave way for the development of the “Eye” (Reilly, 36). The Eye meant that people acquired visual acuity, a greater sense of detail. The “eye-witness account” enabled more efficient ...

(5 pages) 19 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers