[FUN_Mail] vision lab ideas?

[Richard Olivo]

You can find complete instructions for a crayfish ERG experiment in my
online lab manual:

tinyurl.com/bio301

​Look for Lab 6, "​Electroretinogram of the crayfish eye."  The lab has
students measure and plot the latency and amplitude of the ERG for
different light intensities, using strobes to generate flashes and neutral
density filters to control intensity. (Relative intensity is much easier to
control than wavelenth selectivity, where it is difficult to generate
stimuli at different wavelengths of equal photon densities).

best,
Richard

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Richard F Olivo, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, Smith College
Founding Editor, Educational Resources (ERIN), Society for Neuroscience
    44 College Lane, Smith College, Northampton MA 01063
    413 585-3822  •   http://tinyurl.com/bio300  •   http://erin.sfn.org

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Dr. James Murray Ph.D. via FUN_Mail <
fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org> wrote:

> I’ve recorded electroretinograms from crayfish eyes using pin electrodes.
> That is really easy if you have a simple amplifier and recording set up.
> Really robust responses.  Maybe test wavelength selectivity, or flicker
> fusion.
>
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> > On Feb 5, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Kozlowski, Dorothy via FUN_Mail <
> fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org> wrote:
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> > Hi Everyone,
> > Just reaching out to see if anyone has any suggestions on labs for
> vision for upper level undergraduates.  I do the cow eye dissection, blind
> spot demonstration, as well as a small demo on the distribution of rods and
> cones (I.e. What do they see first…the pen or color of the pen) and have
> had the students analyze some visual illusions.  I’ve scoured the internet
> and ERIN but haven’t really found anything that’s much different.  Any new
> creative ideas out there? dkozlows at depaul.edu
> > Thanks
> > Dorothy
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