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GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 27

Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting · Sensation: Sensory thresholds and adaptation, vision, hearing, touch and pain, smell and taste, kinesthesis and vestibular sense · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Blind spot in the retina contains _______________________________________.

  1. only rod cells
  2. only cone cells
  3. both rod and cone cells
  4. neither rod nor cone cells

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Correct answer: (D) neither rod nor cone cells

Explanation

The blind spot is where the optic nerve leaves the eye, and it has no photoreceptors at all.