Course unit content
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Vision:<br />
the light; the retina; the photoreceptors; photopic vision and colours; scotopic vision; the photopigments; the rhodopsin cicle; the receptor potential; theory of the second messanger; cyclic GMP; image processing in the retina.<br />
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Hearing: <br />
noise and sound; the audiogram; outer, middle and inner ear; the organ of Corti; cochlea and tonotopicity; acoustic potentials; sensibility and tone resolution; propagation of the acoustic information.