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Rods are the photoreceptors responsible for scotopic, or low-light, vision.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Simulating Novel Colors Our eyes process colors and images through photoreceptors — rods and cones.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
The team calculates that a single cone photoreceptor in the human eye can transmit information at around 270 bits/sec, which comes out to a staggering 1.6 billion bits/sec per eye.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 18 Dec. 2024
The two main photoreceptor cells in the retina, cones and rods, transfer the light into electric signals.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Simulating Novel Colors Our eyes process colors and images through photoreceptors — rods and cones.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
The team calculates that a single cone photoreceptor in the human eye can transmit information at around 270 bits/sec, which comes out to a staggering 1.6 billion bits/sec per eye.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 18 Dec. 2024
The two main photoreceptor cells in the retina, cones and rods, transfer the light into electric signals.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
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“Photoreceptor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photoreceptor. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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photoreceptor
noun
pho·to·re·cep·tor
-ˈsep-tər 
: a receptor for light stimuli
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