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Panoptes and the Bionic Eye
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | Trumpis, Michael Middelmann, Shingi Cunningham, Gisselle |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | In this activity, students learn about the visual system and then conduct a model experiment to map the visual field response of a Panoptes robot. Vision is the primary sense of many animals and much is known about how vision is processed in the mammalian nervous system. One distinct property of the primary visual cortex is a highly organized pattern of sensitivity to location and orientation of objects in the visual field. But how did we learn this? An important tool is the ability to design experiments to map out the structure and response of a system such as vision. In this activity, students learn about the visual system and then conduct a model experiment to map the visual field response of a Panoptes robot. (In Greek mythology, Argus Panoptes was the "all-seeing" watchman giant with 100 eyes.) A simple activity modification enables a true black box experiment, in which students do not directly observe how the visual system is configured, and must match the input to the output in order to reconstruct the unseen system inside the box. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado Polytechnic Institute of New York University |
| Subject Keyword | Biology Measurement Medical Retinal Implant Visual Cortex Retinal Prosthesis Robot Experiment Neuroscience Human Body Brain Biomedical Data Collection Histogram Vision Black Box Bionic Eye |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT1H45M |
| Education Level | Class IX Class X Class XI Class XII |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Geometry Biology |
