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Encyclopedia > Accommodation reflex
Human eye

The Accommodation Reflex is a reflex action of the eye, in response to focusing on a near object, then looking at distant object (and vice versa). Image:Menschliches auge. ... Image:Menschliches auge. ... A reflex action or reflex is a biological control system linking stimulus to response and mediated by a reflex arc. ... An eye is an organ that detects light. ... The focus, or focal point of a lens or parabolic mirror is the point onto which collimated light parallel to the axis is focused. ... This page includes English translations of several Latin phrases and abbreviations such as . ...


A near object (for example, a computer screen) appears large in your field of vision, and the eye receives light from wide angles. When you focus on a near object, the pupil constricts in order to prevent diverging light rays from hitting the periphery of the retina and resulting in a blurred image. As the pupil constricts, the lens becomes more spherical to allow for the diverging light rays. Prism splitting light Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye, or in a more general sense, any electromagnetic radiation in the range from infrared to ultraviolet. ... The human eye The pupil is the central transparent area (showing as black). ... Human eye cross-sectional view. ... A lens is: a part of the eye an optical device that may be used in a camera or in a telescope; see lens (optics). ... A sphere is, roughly speaking, a ball-shaped object. ...


When you look at a distant object, parallel light rays enter the eye, and the pupil dilates. Muscles in the eye flatten the lens. The term Parallel has a number of important meanings: Parallel (geometry) occurs in geometry. ...


See Accommodation (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/accom.html)


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