The movies in our eyes

被引:13
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作者
Werblin, Frank [1 ]
Roska, Botond [1 ]
机构
[1] Friedrich Miescher Inst Biomed Res, Basel, Switzerland
关键词
INHIBITION;
D O I
10.1038/scientificamerican0407-72
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
We take our astonishing visual capabilities so much for granted that few of us ever stop to consider how we actually see. For decades, scientists have likened out visual processing machinery to a television camera: the eye's lens focuses incoming light onto an array of photoreceptors of the retina.
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页码:72 / 79
页数:8
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