fovea contains _.

1.only rods/2.only cones

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  • The retina contains two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones. The rods are more numerous, some 120 million, and are more sensitive than the cones. However, they are not sensitive to color. The 6 to 7 million cones provide the eye's color sensitivity and they are much more concentrated in the central yellow spot known as the macula. In the center of that region is the " fovea centralis ", a 0.3 mm diameter rod-free area with very thin, densely packed cones. The experimental evidence suggests that among the cones there are three different types of color reception. Response curves for the three types of cones have been determined. Since the perception of color depends on the firing of these three types of nerve cells, it follows that visible color can be mapped in terms of three numbers called tristimulus values. Color perception has been successfully modeled in terms of tristimulus values and mapped on the CIE chromaticity diagram Cones are concentrated in the fovea centralis. Rods are absent there but dense elsewhere. Measured density curves for the rods and cones on the retina show an enormous density of cones in the fovea centralis. To them is attributed both color vision and the highest visual acuity. Visual examination of small detail involves focusing light from that detail onto the fovea centralis. On the other hand, the rods are absent from the fovea. At a few degrees away from it their density rises to a high value and spreads over a large area of the retina. These rods are responsible for night vision, our most sensitive motion detection, and our peripheral vision The above illustration does make it appear that there are no cones outside the fovea centralis, but that is not true. The blue cones in particular do extend out beyond the fovea.
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  • only cones . fovea is the point of sharpest image formation. as cones have low senstivity but high resolution power thats why there are only cones cells.
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  • Only cones and is the point of maximum resolution of the image
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  • cones only
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  • fovea centralis ( yellow spot ) contains only CONES
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