Optometry Research Papers
The goal of my project was to discover if the majority of my subjects had the same eye and hand dominance. To test this I had my subjects do a quick test. First I recorded their hand dominance. Next, I tested their eye dominance. They made a circle with their thumb and first finger. With both eyes open they looked at an object on the wall and centred it inside the circle. Then they closed one eye, and then the other. When they closed their left or right eye they should have found that the object jumped outside the circle. If the object seemed to move when they closed their left eye, then they have left eye dominance. If the object moved more when their right eye was closed, then their right eye is dominant. I expected to find the vast majority
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Your brain builds up an image of the world using different views from your right or left eye. The majority of people tend to have a dominant eye so that even when both eyes are open, the dominant eye processes and transmits information to the brain a few milliseconds faster than the other, as said on the website sportsci.org. The scientific purpose of my project was to determine if the majority of the population has the same eye and hand dominance. This project relates to my future interests because I am very interested in Optometry. Optometry is the practice or profession of examining the eyes for visual defects and prescribing corrective lenses. I picked this project because it involved testing eyes, which is what optometrists do every …show more content…
Studies have shown that differences in hand/eye dominance do not correlate with performance differences in basic laparoscopic skills. Another study also shows that shooting a basketball is not conclusively affected by crossed hand-eye dominance. Experiments testing the accuracy of basketball players shooting the ball through a variety of visual stimuli showed that, individuals tend to adjust to whatever dominant hand-eye combination they possess. Shooting a basketball simply reflects their hand-eye skills in general. However it can affect your accuracy in archery. This is because the dominant eye will always command the sight line when both eyes are open. When the bow is sighted with the dominant eye, everything works as it should. The line-of-sight and the path of the arrow
Your brain builds up an image of the world using different views from your right or left eye. The majority of people tend to have a dominant eye so that even when both eyes are open, the dominant eye processes and transmits information to the brain a few milliseconds faster than the other, as said on the website sportsci.org. The scientific purpose of my project was to determine if the majority of the population has the same eye and hand dominance. This project relates to my future interests because I am very interested in Optometry. Optometry is the practice or profession of examining the eyes for visual defects and prescribing corrective lenses. I picked this project because it involved testing eyes, which is what optometrists do every …show more content…
Studies have shown that differences in hand/eye dominance do not correlate with performance differences in basic laparoscopic skills. Another study also shows that shooting a basketball is not conclusively affected by crossed hand-eye dominance. Experiments testing the accuracy of basketball players shooting the ball through a variety of visual stimuli showed that, individuals tend to adjust to whatever dominant hand-eye combination they possess. Shooting a basketball simply reflects their hand-eye skills in general. However it can affect your accuracy in archery. This is because the dominant eye will always command the sight line when both eyes are open. When the bow is sighted with the dominant eye, everything works as it should. The line-of-sight and the path of the arrow