We visually are not aware of a “blind spot” when both eyes are open because____? the other...

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  1. We visually are not aware of a “blind spot” when both eyes areopen because____?

  1. the other eye is redundant so there is no need for it.
  2. your eyes have different focal points and thus would givedifferent answers.
  3. light stimuli excite the same point on both retinas.
  4. the blind spots of our eyes are not on correspondingpoints.
  5. None of the answers are correct.

2.Sound, light, taste, touch and smell do not come in one level.We are able to describe the intensity of a stimulus (i.e. theintensity of ammonia salts or the brightness of a camera’s flash).What are the mechanisms used by the nervous system to communicateintensity via graded and action potentials?

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Answer 1 c light stimuli excite the same point on both retinas With both eyes open the blind spots are not preceived because the visual fields of the two eyes overlap Indeed even with one eye closed the blind spot can be difficult to detect subjectively because of the ability of the brain to fill in or ignore the missing portion of the image Blind spot small portion of the visual    See Answer
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