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The terms REM sleep, active sleep, and paradoxical sleep all refer to the same phenomenon.
Optic Nerve
The nerve responsible for conducting visual data from the retina to the brain.
Visual Receptors
Cells located in the retina that are sensitive to light and play a key role in vision by converting light energy into neural signals.
Retina
A layer at the back of the eyeball containing cells that are sensitive to light and trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.
Trichromatic Theory
A theory of color vision proposing that the human eye has three types of receptors with different sensitivities to light wavelengths, responsible for the perception of color.
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