In: Physics
people wearing prism goggles, which shift the visual world left or right by small, quickly adapt to the distortion. suppose you were wearing goggles that completely reversed everything along the left-right dimension, as if you were viewing the world in a mirror, with objects to your right appearing to be on your left, and objects appearing to be on your left appearing to be on your right. would you be able to adapt to this sort of distortion? explain your answer.
Initially it is difficult to adapt to this sort of distortion but if we consider the working of a human brain we get a clear idea about the adaptation.Prism goggles are used to shift the position of objects with the help of arranging the light rays in a particular manner such that retina scan the image at a particular position.This idea was introduced for prism correction in eyeglasses for people affected with double vision.
If we wear prism goggles that completely reverses everything along the left-right dimension initially it will be awkward and after sometime brain analyses the change and react accordingly.The brain accept the change within a matter of time and there are scientific reasons for this such as
: Image formation in the eye
: Relation with focal length and focus
: Optic nerve and nervous system
Reflection of light holds a major part in the prism adapatation and also when the working of the prism is included for reason for these changes.