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Oct 2025
12m 19s

Season 3 Episode 1 | Through the Looking...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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How does the human eye transform waves of light into the vivid, detailed experience we call vision? In this episode of CortexCast, we follow photons on their journey from the moment they strike the retina to the point where visual signals begin to take shape. We explore the cascade of biochemical reactions triggered by molecules such as retinal and rhodopsin ... Show More
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