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• n  area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute

• An electron micrograph of a human retina shows the crater-like macula, with the fovea at its center.
• This is larger than the fovea centralis, the part of the retina that is used in accurate vision.
• One is a highly sensitive dimplelike spot on the retina (the fovea centralisliterally, "central pit"), which acts as a magnifying device to spread the image over a greater .

• fovea centralis

News & Articles

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• GlassesOff Scientists Report New Findings Associating Vision Sharpness with Visual Processing Speed – Results ...
  GlassesOff Inc. today announced that Nature's Scientific Reports published the results of a new study, which provided additional evidence of the correlation between the fovea, which is part of the retina, and crowding, processing speed and vision sharpness.
  Feb. 13, 2014 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance