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psychology

look into my eye

This is a picture of the back of one of my eyes:

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The light patch in the center is the blindspot, where the optic nerves gather to exit the retina (on their journey to the rest of the brain). Obviously I was a little disappointed that I couldn’t make out individual rod and cone photoreceptors, like wot I seen in textbooks, but apparently the dark patch off to the left is the fovea, with the darkening being caused by the increased photoreceptor density.

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