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Video Resources

Video Link 6.1: 2-Minute Neuroscience: Phototransduction
Description: Phototransduction is the process that occurs in the retina where light is converted into electrical signals that can be understood by the rest of the nervous system. This video explains the mechanism underlying phototransduction in rod photoreceptor cells.

Web Resources

Web Link 6.1: Color Blindness Simulator
Description: A color blind simulator meant to show what it’s like to suffer from a color vision deficiency.

Web Link 6.2: Hearing and How It Works/Auditory Transduction/Dancing Hair Cell
Description: Two animations, Hearing and How It Works and Auditory Transduction, give a good picture of what happens in the middle and inner ear. Dancing Hair Cell is a highly magnified video of an outer hair cell shortening and lengthening in rhythm with Linda Ronstadt’s “Quiéreme Mucho.”