Blind Spot Activity
If possible secure several different types of equipment to demonstrate how blind spots vary from one piece of equipment to another.
Blind spot activity. The blind spot is the area on the retina without receptors that respond to light. Position your head to look straight at the image. Find your blind spot.
Activity 1 2 the blind spot the optic disk is a blind spot because it does not contain any rod or cone cells the light sensitive cells on the retina. This exact spot is your blind spot. Your brain noticed the straight line in the surrounding of your blind spot and just continued the line although it technically didn t see it.
Instruct one worker to sit. The blind spot is where the optic nerve and blood vessels leave the eyeball. However the brain couldn t notice the shape as it was fully inside the blind spot.
Stage a dump truck or other large piece of equipment in an open area or parking lot. November 3 2012 at 12 49 pm looking the others both through your good and bad traits screens can help you a lot to have an effective well working together diverse enough team while only focusing on those traits you have like will blind you in important aspects of your combined performance. It is in this region that the optic nerve exits the eye on its way to the brain.
This is why you don t notice the blind spot in your day to day observations of the world. A self reflection activity for managers business coaching scoop it says. Lock out the vehicle and remove keys from cab.
Therefore an image that falls on this region will not be seen. Cover your left eye and look at the plus in the middle of the green background with your right eye. This activity can be adapted to include discussions about evolutionary biology and the development of vision.
This is a great example of how your brain tries to fill in the blanks of the blind spot. Move closer to the screen as before. Blind spot activity 1.
Estimated time of activity. Your brain automatically fills in the blind spot with a simple extrapolation of the image surrounding the blind spot. Now let s try the same exercise with the new image above.
Measure the size of your blind spot without a partner. It carries images to the brain where they re processed. The blind spot one of the most dramatic experiments to perform is the demonstration of the blind spot.
The assignments may be completed in additional classroom time or as homework.
