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Which diagnostic test is performed to determaine losses in peripheral vision?
A visual field test; the most common type is called a Humphrey Visual Field 30-2 test; older and less common visual field tests include Goldmann visual fields and tangent screen visual fields. Source: I am an Optometrist
Is visual field testing performed to determine the presence of cataracts?
no visual field testing is used to determine peripheral vision losses
Normal vision in both eyes for right half of the visual field absence of vision in both eyes for left half of the visual field?
Normal vision in both eyes results in the right half of the visual field being dominant. The absence of vision in both eyes results in the left half of the visual field being dominant.
If an object is moving to the left at a constant speed and your eyes are rotating to the left at twice the speed how will you see the object?
The object will appear to be moving to the right in your visual field. This is because your visual field is moving to the left faster than the object is moving to the left. What you will see is that the object will appear in your visual field on the left, and the object will move across your visual field to the right.
Why are visual field tests do?
Visual field tests (perimetry) can detect blind spots in a patient's field of vision before the patient is aware of them. Certain defects may indicate glaucoma.
What are the two parts of visual field?
Central and peripheral
Blindness in one half of the visual field?
hemianopia
Blindness in one-half of the visual field?
hemianopia
What is the focal visual system?
Is responsible for object identification and recognition. It takes place in the centre of your visual field.
How is the visual pathway from the eyes different from that of the ears or hands?
each eye is not primarily connected to one hemisphere only instead, each visual half field is projected to the opposite hemisphere so, if an image is seen in the right visual field it would be seen in the left hemisphere and if an image is seen in the left visual field it would be seen in the right hemisphere
What is the medical term that describes blindness in one half of the visual field?
Hemianopsia is the medical term meaning loss of half of the visual field.
Which term describes blindness in half of the visual field?
hemianopsia
