Visual Neuroscience - Process of Visual Perception and Clinical Psychologists

Process of Visual Perception and Clinical Psychologists

The continuous research into visual neuroscience has resulted in an ever growing knowledge of the human visual system. It has filled in many of the steps between the moment when light hits our retina to when we experience visual perception of our world. Insight into this process allows clinical psychologists to gain a greater understanding for what may be causing visual disorders in their patients. While understanding the underlying process of a visual disorder alone will not provide a patient with treatment, it will put both the patient and the clinician at ease knowing exactly what they are dealing with from a scientific perspective rooted in visual neuroscience research rather than a descriptive account of symtoms by the patient.

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