Recent studies have elucidated how the absorption of a photon in a rod or cone cell leads to the generation of the amplified neural signal that is transmitted to higher-order visual neurons. Photoexci
The global aim of the project is that students discuss how we see in colour, how this is genetically encoded, that there are conditions where colour vision is lost, and that not all animals see the sa
The majority of neurons in the primary visual cortex of primates can be activated by stimulation of either eye; moreover, the monocular receptive fields of such neurons are located in about the same r
