Photoreception And Phototransduction Flashcards
Light detection that leads to vision and depends on photoreceptors
Photo reception
Photon absorption by visual pigment that is lying on one of the discs in the outer segment of the photoreceptors
Photo receptions
Specialized light sensitive neurons
Photoreceptors
What is the visible sepctrum of light
400-700
Peripheral visual system
AKA scotopic
-dim light and motion
Central visual system
Photopic
-color and detail
Rods (scotopic_
Dim light
Not good for detailed vision
Not good for color
Lower sensitivity to rapidly changing stimuli
Specialized for detailed vision, color vision, less sensitive, and higher sensitive to rapidly changing stimuli
Cones (photopic)
Are cones of rods more sensitive
Rods
Are cones nad rods more sensitive to rapidly changing stimuli
Cones
What photoreceptors are in the fovea
Cones
Comprise 97% of photoreceptors
Rods
Peak absorption of rods
500-510
Rod convergence and sensitivity
Increases sensitivity
-may rods gather light information onto one retinal bipolar cell
3% of photoreceptors
Cones
More of these in fovea than periphery
Cones
L-cone
Red cone
560nm
Long wavelength
M-cone
Green cone
530nm
Medium wavelength
S-cone
Blue cone
420nm
Shirt wavelength
What cones is not present in fovea
S cone
Convergence with cones and sensitivity
There is no convergence
S cones and rods
Very similar to shape as rods, not present in the fovea