How can a small human retina detect objects larger than itself? a. the brain interprets the size of the images. b. lenses of the eye change the size of the images. c. the cells of the retina change the size of the images. d. the optic nerve interprets the size of the images.

The correct answer would be B) the lenses of the eye change the size of images. Moreover, the light reflects off of the things and objects we see in the world, and then it is focused by our eye, i.e. our eye's lens. The light changes the light of the image we are seeing form the distal stimulus (i.e. the three dimensional world) to the proximal stimulus (i.e. the 2 dimensional world). However, the image is only interpreted after it passes through the retina's optic nerve.