The Gonzales Lab at UNR Med, led by Albert Gonzales, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology and cell biology, spearheaded ...

The retina is home to two different kinds of light receptor cells—rods and cones. (Both are named after their relative shapes.) Cones work in bright light and register detail, while rods work in ...

The reason lies within the eye. In the eye are light receptors called cones and rods. Cones help us distinguish different colors, while rods help us see in dim light. The number of cones and rods ...

Just like the human eye, a deer’s eye contains rods and cones. Rods work to absorb light and cones are for seeing color and distinguishing details. The human eye is packed with cones ...

Eye and head movements in patients with achromatopsia ... Birch DG, Anderson JL . Rod visual fields in cone-rod degeneration. Comparison to retinitis pigmentosa. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci ...

Jammed along the surface of the retina, the relatively simple cells ... saber-toothed-tiger attacks because of their rods, not their cones. While rods can only give you grayscale vision, color ...

Light passes through the eyeball to the retina. There are two main types of light receptors called rods and cones. Rods are more sensitive to light than cones so they are useful for seeing in dim ...

Our ability to perceive our visual environment originates at the level of the retina, where light is detected by rod and cone photoreceptors and converted into an electrical signal. This signal ...

Inside the retina, there are millions of special sense receptors called rods and cones. The rods see the shapes of things, picking out black, white and shades of grey… and the cones see colours ...