Multiple Choice
Alcohol consumption can impair color vision, particularly making it more difficult to distinguish between which two colors?
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4. Sensation and Perception
Color Vision
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Which type of photoreceptor cell in the human retina is primarily responsible for color vision?
A
Bipolar cells
B
Rods
C
Ganglion cells
D
Cones
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Understand the function of photoreceptor cells in the human retina, which are responsible for detecting light and converting it into neural signals.
Identify the two main types of photoreceptor cells: rods and cones. Rods are primarily responsible for vision in low light (night vision) and do not detect color.
Recognize that cones are the photoreceptor cells responsible for detecting color and function best in bright light conditions.
Note that bipolar cells and ganglion cells are types of neurons in the retina that process and transmit signals from photoreceptors to the brain, but they are not photoreceptors themselves.
Conclude that cones are the photoreceptor cells primarily responsible for color vision in the human retina.
