Cones and Rods in the Retina (IMAGE)

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Cones and Rods in the Retina

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The image on the left shows the smallest cones at the center of the retina, (the fovea). Whenever we direct our gaze at something, for example to read, the image of what we are looking at is formed over these very important cones. The image on the right shows a more eccentric retinal location, in which the large bright dots with a dark ring around them are cones, and the surrounding (and far more abundant) smaller spots are rods.

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University of Rochester/Biomedical Optics Express

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