Human retinal circuitry and physiology.
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Human retinal circuitry and physiology
Every second, in an average daytime light environment, hundreds of millions of photons enter the human eye and arrive at the photoreceptor layer of the retina. All our information about the visible world is contained in this rain of photons. The retina is a complex tissue, literally an extension of the brain, which transforms the rain of photons into bioelectric signals containing all the infor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychology & Neuroscience
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1983-3288,1984-3054
DOI: 10.3922/j.psns.2008.2.008