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It doesn't! That's just some nonsense someone made up because they noticed they weren't walking around the ceiling and trees don't grow upside down.

How would you know if the image was upside down? Why would your brain reverse the image? What difference would it make? You'd still learn over the course of your life that the floor is 'down' and the 'ceiling' is up.

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First, light enters the eye through the lens of the eye where the image viewed is first upside down (for instance M is "seen" as W). This light is then hits two different receptors known as rods and cones. Rods are effective for seeing in the dark and peripheral vision, whereas cones are effective in seeing color and detail. In most situations the cones pick up most light, which in turn sends a signal to the bipolar cells which relay information from the receptors to the ganglion cells. The ganglion cellsthen send this information directly to the optic nerve and through the optic chiasma where the nerves criss-cross leading to the lateral geniculate nucleus, superior colliculus of the midbrain, and hypothalamus. The lateral geniculate nucleus processes the information and sends it to the occipital lobe where it is further processedinto the perceived image.

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Light rays reflect off the object and into the eye where they are refracted by the cornea and focussed by the lens on to the retina, the optic nerve then carries the messages to the brain and an image is formed. Answer: Images don't form in the eyes they form in the brain.The retina at the back of the eye receives light energy from the exterior environment. This is much like the reception of radio wavs by an antenna.The activated optic nerves transmit electical signals or messages to the brain which interprets the impulses into an image


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It focuses the image by bending the light to strike the retina correctly. This is also called refraction. Interesting: Like a camera lens focuses light onto a piece of film with the image upside down, the image that is focused on our retina is also turned upside down. Our nerves from the eyes send the upside down picture to the brain and the brain knows to flip the image and perceive it right side up.


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Does the lens in your eye flip the image?

The image on the back of the retina is upside-down but the brain converts the image to right-side up, just like the rotation of a photo in an imaging programme.


Where is the image formed in the eye?

Light rays reflect off the object and into the eye where they are refracted by the cornea and focussed by the lens on to the retina, the optic nerve then carries the messages to the brain and an image is formed. Answer: Images don't form in the eyes they form in the brain.The retina at the back of the eye receives light energy from the exterior environment. This is much like the reception of radio wavs by an antenna.The activated optic nerves transmit electical signals or messages to the brain which interprets the impulses into an image


When you first see an image does it appears upside down until the brain translates what you see?

When the image reaches the eye, it is right-side up. The optics in your eye flip the image upside down in the process of absorbing the light. The up-side down image is then sent to your brain. You brain translates it back to right side up, and then creates the image for you to see. The image never appears upside down to you, because your brain does not create the image for you to see until it has flipped it back right-side up.


How does the human eye reflect colors and shapes?

The lens flips the image onto the retina. The retina is the light sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. It contains cells called rods that are sensitive to light intensity and cells called cones that are color-sensitive. The image is then transmitted to the brain via the optic nerve. The brain then interprets the image so that we are not aware that it has been flipped. Interestingly, experiments have been done where people where glasses to flip the images and after a few distressing and disoriented days, the wearer can resume virtually normal vision. The brain is wonderful. Cats can not see in the dark but because they have a very high concentration of rods in their retinas they can see in low light intensity. Scientists can also determine that they have very little color vision.


What job does the lens do in the eye?

It focuses the image by bending the light to strike the retina correctly. This is also called refraction. Interesting: Like a camera lens focuses light onto a piece of film with the image upside down, the image that is focused on our retina is also turned upside down. Our nerves from the eyes send the upside down picture to the brain and the brain knows to flip the image and perceive it right side up.


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