The mammalian visual system encodes information over a remarkable breadth of
spatiotemporal scales and light intensities. This performance originates with its complement …

Purpose Despite extensive research, mechanisms regulating postnatal eye growth and
those responsible for ametropias are poorly understood. With the marked recent increases …

Human circadian, neuroendocrine, and neurobehavioral responses to light are mediated
primarily by melanopsin-containing intrinsically-photosensitive retinal ganglion cells …

Once human photoreceptors die, they do not regenerate, thus, photoreceptor transplantation
has emerged as a potential treatment approach for blinding diseases. Improvements in …

Color vision is essential for an animal's survival. It starts in the retina, where signals from
different photoreceptor types are locally compared by neural circuits. Mice, like most …

Pressures for survival make sensory circuits adapted to a species' natural habitat and its
behavioral challenges. Thus, to advance our understanding of the visual system, it is …

Detection and discrimination of spatial patterns is thought to originate with photoreception by
rods and cones. Here, we investigated whether the inner-retinal photoreceptor melanopsin …

Purpose: Exposure to high-intensity or outdoor lighting has been shown to decrease the
severity of myopia in both human epidemiological studies and animal models. Currently, it is …

Visual Delight in Architecture examines the many ways that our lives are enriched by the
presence of natural daylight and window views within our buildings. It makes a compelling …

In the vertebrate retina, rods and cones both detect light, but they differ in functional aspects
such as light sensitivity and temporal resolution, and in some cell biological aspects. For …