This part of the retina is called fovea centralis.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Elements] Reference

Here's a graph of the distribution -- the fovea is the center of your vision, where it's in perfect focus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask MetaFilter] Reference

The fovea is a cute trick to squeeze greater acuity out of a flawed design, but octopi and squid do it better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

"The density of light-receptor cells decreases progressively from the center of the retina-known as the fovea-to the edges of the retina ….".    From Wordnik.com.  [UXmatters] Reference

The gap a little to the right of the fovea is the blind spot, where all the nerves leave your eye so there's no room for any photoreceptors (which is an entirely different story).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask MetaFilter] Reference

Naturally, the retina outside the fovea is not left unused.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Sensitive instruments track the pathway of the center of vision, or fovea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eye Tracking and Composition, Part 1] Reference

The reason: The central area of the eye, the fovea, is where you pick out details.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain Tricks] Reference

(The name comes from fovea centralis, the place on the retina where sight is sharpest.).    From Wordnik.com.  [THE FILM OF TOMORROW] Reference

And because it was so close to the fovea, a little area had been - had not been lasered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye'] Reference

The peripheral area, surrounding the fovea, is where you see gross details, motion and shadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain Tricks] Reference

Spend enough time to absorb some of the details of the fovea, glial cells, rods/cones, and the rhodospin process.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

By Margaret S. Livingstone/ Harvard Medical School The central area of the eye, the fovea, is where you pick out details.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain Tricks] Reference

The octopus also has a fovea-equivalent structure, which it makes by packing more (or longer) photoreceptors into a given area (1).    From Wordnik.com.  [Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The vessels all come together into the optic nerve and that dark spot is the fovea or macula - and that one doesn't like entirely normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [fambly reunion!] Reference

When he looked directly at the screen, it was still there, though somewhat dimmed as its image moved off the fovea centralis of his retina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities In Flight]

To get decent visual acuity, vertebrates must focus light on a small patch of retina where the blood vessels and nerves have been pushed aside, the fovea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Antennal fovea: Diptera; a groove or grooves in the middle of the face as though for the lodgment of the antennae; bounded on the sides by the facial ridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Facial depression: = antennal fovea, q.v. Facialium - ia: Diptera; that portion of the face between the lower part of the frontal fissure and the antennal fovea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

The optic nerve leaves the eyeball just to one side of the fovea and its point of exit is the one place in the retina where photo-receptors are completely absent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

'VOmnemque dono dedi. nVixi & in fovea immanes inter feras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum] Reference

Tawny owls have only a single fovea, and even that is underdeveloped.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]

Altera minor eft, in fovea minoris fibula?, pone externum malleolum (g).    From Wordnik.com.  [Elementa physiologiae corporis humani ..] Reference

Gray circle shows extent of fovea, the most sensitive part of the retina.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Why Files] Reference

The portion of the eye that gives us the sharpest image is the fovea centralis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]

The books at length of this library amounted to fovea hundred thoufand volumes, ib.    From Wordnik.com.  [An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time] Reference

The small, sensitive area of the retina that gives central vision; contains the fovea.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

QBI Neuroscience Seminar Series: 40 years of mystery, how the fovea is represented on human.    From Wordnik.com.  [UQ News Online] Reference

It may well occur, then, that in a movement the image happens to fall on the blind-spot and not on the fovea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

If you hold out your arm and look at your thumb, your thumbnail covers approximately the area your fovea perceives.    From Wordnik.com.  [UXmatters] Reference

At the fovea centralis the retina is exceedingly thin, and the dark color of the choroid is distinctly seen through it.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye] Reference

The field of acute vision of the eye, characterized by the cone of retinal receptors on the fovea, is actually quite small.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Laser surgery is more effective if the leaky blood vessels have developed away from the fovea, the central part of the macula.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

In species with a centrally placed fovea, however, the compartmentalization breaks down in the front (rostral) part of the SC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

At the fovea, the cone cells (there are no rods in the fovea) are jammed up close together at the highest density of the retina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medgadget] Reference

The head is of a cylindrical form, and on its upper surface is a shallow cup or fovea for articulation with the capitulum of the humerus.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 6a. 5. The Radius] Reference

Because patients habitually use the PRL like a new fovea, it could be that the deprived cortex might respond preferentially to this location.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

Near its center is the fovea, a small pit that contains the largest concentration of cone cells in the eye and is responsible for central vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

The visual cortex has a map of the visual field on the retina, and in macular degeneration the neurons mapping to the fovea no longer receive input.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

Loss of vision begins in the fovea of the retina - the central area providing high acuity vision that we use for reading and other visually demanding tasks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference