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Lecture series24 lectures

Vision and the Eye

Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD and others · Gresham College

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About

This introduction to the series covers the structure and function of the human eye. The historical concept of the eye as a simple image-forming device has been transformed to the modern view of the eye as a sophisticated image-processing organ. How structure and function are beautifully linked, in order to convert light energy into processed electrical signals, will be described.

Lectures

  1. The Human Eye and Vision 2009-09-30 · YouTube
  2. Braille and the history of blindness 2009-10-21 · YouTube
  3. i-dentity 2009-11-02 · YouTube
  4. The History of Cataract Surgery 2010-01-20 · YouTube
  5. Visual Perception 2010-02-17 · YouTube
  6. Inflammatory Eye Disease 2010-03-24 · YouTube
  7. Fun with Visual Illusions 2010-10-13 · YouTube
  8. Correction of Optical Defects: From Spectacles to Lasers 2010-11-17 · YouTube
  9. Diabetes, Hypertension and Vascular Diseases of the Eye 2010-12-08 · YouTube
  10. Blindness in Children: The Global Perspective 2011-01-12 · YouTube
  11. Why we see what we do 2011-02-16 · YouTube
  12. Colour 2011-03-30 · YouTube
  13. The Ageing Eye 2012-10-24 · YouTube
  14. The Evolution of Vision 2012-11-21 · YouTube
  15. Vision and the Artist 2013-01-30 · YouTube
  16. Animal Eyes 2013-02-27 · YouTube
  17. Technology and Vision 2013-04-17 · YouTube
  18. The Window on the Soul 2013-05-29 · YouTube
  19. The Eye at War: Preventing and treating combat injuries a 2000 year journey 2013-10-30 · YouTube
  20. Transplantation and the Eye 2013-11-27 · YouTube
  21. Return of the Microbes: How infections are once more taking over 2014-01-29 · YouTube
  22. Eye on the Future: How can modern scientific knowledge help to prevent blindness 2014-02-26 · YouTube
  23. Artificial Eye, Artificial Vision: How does my robot see? 2014-04-09 · YouTube
  24. The Iconography of Blindness: How artists have portrayed the blind 2014-05-14 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Taught by
Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD, Professor John Marshall MBE, Professor Stephen Foster, Professor Clare Gilbert, Professor Dan Reinstein
Year
2009
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Medicine and health, History, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
Attribution
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