Art Archives - Knowing Neurons

Did You Know?Interviews Neuroscience Art Sensation and Perception

Kayleen Schreiber July 19, 2017July 16, 2017 Art, Brain, Color, Consciousness, Cortex, Genetics, Interview, Knowing Neurons, Learning, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroscience, Perception, Prefrontal Cortex, Science

Self Reflected: The Best of Neuroscience and Art

The phrase, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” seems especially true for scientists. What we study becomes not only intellectually beautiful, but also literally beautiful: the form is… Read More

Did You Know?Interviews Sensation and Perception SfN 2014

Kate Fehlhaber November 10, 2014March 5, 2017 @KnowingNeurons, Art, Brainstem, Creativity, Grad School, Intuition, Mechanosensory, Neurons, Organization, Postdoc, Sense, Sensory, SfN14, Spinal cord, Touch

Science with a Touch of Art: A Conversation with David Ginty

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/176184172″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] If you think about it, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of tactile receptors. The dozens… Read More

Brain Basics Did You Know?Neuroscience Art Sensation and Perception

knowingneurons May 7, 2014March 5, 2017 Art, Colorful, Kaschube, Orientation tuning, Pinwheel, Primary visual cortex, Rebecca A. Zarate, Science, Universality in the Evolution of Orientation Columns in the Visual Cortex, V1, Visual, Wolf

Visual Pinwheels

When you look at an object, like the picture above, there are many features your brain has the task of processing. Color, texture, and position in space to name a few. Lines and angles… Read More