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What are rods
These photoreceptors, found in the periphery of the retina cannot detect color.
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What is the temporal lobe.
The primary auditory area, the place in the brain where auditory information goes is found in this lobe.
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What is the fovea.
The area with the most densely packed photoreceptors, this is the name for the center of the retina.
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What are hair cells.
Much like the photoreceptors do in the visual system, these cells transduce sound waves into neural impulses.
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What is the occipital lobe.
One of the four lobes of the brain, this area is primarily responsible for vision.
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What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup.
The smallest bones in the body, name one of the bones found in the inner ear.
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What is the optic nerve.
This is the name for the bundle of neurons that exit the eyeball and bring visual information into the brain.
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What is Wernicke's area.
This area of the brain is responsible for understanding speech, and people who have damage there can speak, but what they say is mostly nonsense.
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What is the color opponent theory (or opponent process theory).
Originally devised to explain the afterimage effect, this is one theory of the way cones create color perception.
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What is the cochlea.
Shaped like a snail, this inner-ear structure is responsible for detecting pitch and loudness.
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