New UCLA research in mice suggests that "dormant" cone photoreceptors in the degenerating retina are not dormant at all, but continue to function, producing responses to light and driving retinal ...

In the retina, the cells responsible for the visual experience are rods and cones. These cells are called photoreceptors and they absorb and convert light into electric signals.

The cells in the retina that produce the visual experience are rods and cones. Rods are active in dim light and cones in daylight. Mutations in rods that cause them to die trigger most inherited ...

Achromatopsia is caused by disease-causing variants to one of a few genes. It affects cone cells, which (along with rods) are one of two types of photoreceptors in the eyes.

Psychology and vision studies of how human eyes perceive color have found that cone cells don’t function properly in low lighting, so that’s when the other photoreceptors in your eyes (the ...

Psychology and vision studies of how human eyes perceive color have found that cone cells don’t function properly in low lighting, so that’s when the other photoreceptors in your eyes (the ...

Our retina has about 100 million specialized rod-shaped cells that solely function in low-energy situations and deliver their sensations in grayscale alone. It’s the less-sensitive cones ...