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PowerPoint ® slides or transparencies of all student sheets Materials and Setup Teacher Materials (see Setup, below) Students also should note that there are several one-way valves in the heart that prevent blood from moving backward from the atria into the veins, from the ventricles back into the atria, and from the arteries back into the ventricles. The walls of the atria are not as thick as those of the ventricles. As students examine and dissect a heart, be sure they note the thick, muscular, elastic walls that allow the ventricles to pump blood effectively throughout the body.
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The two upper chambers, the atria, receive blood returning from the body (right atrium) and the lungs (left atrium), and pass it into the lower chambers, the ventricles, so that they can pump it to all other areas of the body. The heart is a double pump with four chambers. Additional signals about pace can come from the brain (nervous system) and hormones (endocrine system). Together, the SA and AV nodes regulate contractions of the ventricles and atria, and allow the heart to work as an efficient double pump. The signal from the sinoatrial node spreads to another small bundle of nervous tissue, the atrioventricular node (AV node), located in the heart wall between the two chambers on the right side of the heart. A small bundle of nervous tissue, called the sinoatrial node (SA node), in the wall of the right atrium initiates each contraction and serves as a “pacemaker,” setting the rate and timing of heartbeats. Due to this important characteristic, the heart does not require a signal from the brain or spinal cord every time it needs to contract. Cardiac muscle cells are able to contract on their own, without receiving stimulation from the nervous system. So it is more accurate to say that each hemisphere of the brain is dealing with the opposite half of the environment, rather than with the opposite side of the body.The heart is made mostly of a special kind of muscle, known as cardiac muscle, which is very resistant to fatigue. We can see from such tests that each eye sends information to both hemispheres, and conversely, that each hemisphere of the brain gets input from both eyes. For instance, if you look at the word "was," focusing your gaze on the "a," you wouldn't see the "s" - and you would only see the left half of the "a." A complete right homonymous hemianopia (neurologists call this half-blindness) actually dissects precisely the center of gaze. Problems with sight, such as vision gaps, are also divided along these lines. What is less commonly known is that such a stroke can also lead to blindness in the right half of the visual world-the right visual field-involving both eyes. This arrangement means that when are looking at something, each of the two retinas are seeing the same thing, providing binocular 3D vision.Ī massive stroke in the left side of the brain leads to paralysis and lack of sensation in the right side of the face, right arm, and right leg. In other words, light coming from anywhere in the left half of the visual environment projects onto the two right half-retinas, and the information is sent to the right hemisphere. The most important fact is that the lens of the eye inverts the image that forms on the retina therefore, objects seen to our left are sensed by the right half of our left eye. Just like the visual field is divided into two hemi-fields, the retina, a layer of cells at the back of the eye, is divided in half. The total visual field is the sum of the right and left hemi-visual fields in each eye.
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To produce sight, the eyes capture information and send it through the optic nerve to be processed by the occipital lobe.Įach eye sees a part of the outer world which is called its visual field. Sight is a complex function of the brain that extends from the front to the back of the head. At this point, each nerve then splits again so that both halves of the brain receive information from each eye. Since we have two eyes we have two optic nerves that eventually meet at the optic chiasm, centrally located near the pituitary gland. For example, information about touch and pain coming from the right half of the body goes to the left hemisphere of the brain and muscle movements of the left side of the body come from the brain's right hemisphere.īut the eyes are an exception to this rule. Much of the human brain is arranged in a way that the right half of the brain controls the left half of the body and vice versa.