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Gil Torten May 3, 2022May 6, 2022 Electron microscopy, Light, Microscopy, Vision

A Close Up Look 14 – Microscopy

In this new installment of our infographic series, A Close Up Look, KN Illustrator Gil Torten introduces different types of microscopy used in vision science! Check it out!… Read More

A Close Up Look Infographics

Gil Torten December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 animal vision, Evolution, Light, Sight, Vision

A Close Up Look 11 – Pupils

In this new installment of our infographic series, A Close Up Look, KN Illustrator Gil Torten takes us on a journey through the different pupil shapes found in nature and… Read More

Symbolic illustration of optogenetics with a strand of DNA coming out of someone's cartoon brain and being examined by a magnifying glass. Designed by Alexa Erdogan.

Neuroscience Technologies Big Ideas Learning and Memory Movement

Jeff Olney May 27, 2020May 24, 2020 Behavior, Deep Brain Stimulation, EEG, electroconvulsive therapy, Learning and Memory, Light, Optogenetics, Technology, Therapeutic Approaches, Vision

Optogenetics: An Illuminating Tool with A Bright Future

Nearly everything we do requires our brain in some way. Eating a bagel? That uses your brain. Reading this article? That’s using your brain, too. All those questionable decisions you… Read More

Sensation and Perception Did You Know?

Kate Fehlhaber September 28, 2016June 30, 2017 Acuity, Blind, Cat, Cataracts, Color, Critical Period, Deprivation, Development, Hubel, Illusion, Kitten, Light, Monocular, Oversegementation, Perception, Perceptual, Project Prakash, See, Sight, synaptic plasticity, Touch, Vision, Visual, Visual cortex, Wiesel

When the blind can see again: A critical question of perception

Our sense of sight is arguably our most important sense. Imagine how different your life would be if soon after birth, you lost the ability to see. For over 1.4… Read More

Brain Basics Sensation and Perception

Joel Frohlich July 1, 2015March 5, 2017 Blue, Cataract, Color, Cone, Eye, Frank Jackson, Gene therapy, Green, Lens, Light, Mantis Shrimp, Perception, Photoreceptor, Red, Retina, Ultraviolet, UV, Vision

Seeing Invisible Colors

What would the world be like without color? Imagine you are a neurophysiologist, who studies color perception. You know that light is a wave and that humans perceive color according… Read More

Neuroscience Technologies

Ryan Jones February 8, 2013March 5, 2017 Algae, Boyden, Channelrhodopsin, Deisseroth, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity, Halorhodopsin, Light, Millisecond-timescale, Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry, Neurons, Neuroscience, Optogenetics

What do single cell green algae have to do with the state of the art of neuroscience?

Well, a lot actually! Green algae, or Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to be formal, are the unicellular organisms with a unique trait that has been helping make huge advances in modern neuroscience… Read More