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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

Sensation and Perception Brain Basics Consciousness Videos

Joel Frohlich September 15, 2016July 10, 2017 associators, Blue, Brain, brain imaging, Color, color-grapheme, Colors, Conscious, Consciousness, diffusion tensor imaging, DTI, Francis Galton, Green, Hear, ideasthesia, Interview, Music, Neuroscience, projectors, Red, See, Sound, Synesthesia, Synethesia, Violin

Garbage Smells Green and Gunshots Are Rainbows

The minds of individuals are like parallel universes, forever inaccessible to one another. Never do we truly see through the eyes of another person. It is common for us to… Read More

Feature image of a brain with a circle pulsating from the center, to symbolically describe synesthesia.

Sensation and Perception Did You Know?

Kayleen Schreiber September 13, 2016June 5, 2019 Audition, auditory, Brain, Color, Colors, Dendrite, Hear, Hearing, Mix, Mixed, Music, Perception, See, Sense, Senses, Sight, Synesthesia, Vision

What is Synesthesia?

Have you ever wondered if you experience the world like everyone else? We assume that our senses tell us what’s going on in the world, but they’re far from perfect.… Read More

Sensation and Perception

Kate Fehlhaber June 22, 2016June 30, 2017 Behavior, Blue, Brain, Color, Cone, Green, Hue, Mantis Shrimp, Nanometer, Photoreceptor, Physiology, Rainbow, Receptor, Red, Scientist, See, Sight, Spectral discrimination task, Vision, Yellow

The Spectacularly Colorful World of the Mantis Shrimp

Our eyes contain millions of color-sensitive cells, called cones, which maximally respond to red, green, and blue light. With just these three types of color receptors, we can see the… Read More

Did You Know?Interviews Sensation and Perception SfN 2014

Kate Fehlhaber October 27, 2014March 5, 2017 Blind, Botond Roska, Circuits, Computational, Cortex, David Hubel, Neural, Neuroscience, Retina, See, Sense, SfN14, Sight, Thalamus, Vision, Visual

Understanding the Visual System: A Conversation with Botond Roska

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/174013562″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] When we see the world, there is a huge amount of processing that occurs in the neural circuits of the retina, thalamus, and… Read More

Brain Basics Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Sensation and Perception

Kate Fehlhaber July 23, 2014March 5, 2017 Brain, Corpus callosum, Fibers, Hemisphere, Key, Key-Ring, language, Left, Nerves, Optic Chiasm, Perception, Right, Ring, Roger Sperry, See, Split brain, Vision

The Split Brain: Making Two Hemispheres Whole

Admit it! You’ve taken one of those online quizzes to see if you’re more “right-brained” or “left-brained.” Too bad it’s all bunk! Popular culture would have you believe that… Read More

Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies Sensation and Perception

Kate Fehlhaber March 5, 2014March 5, 2017 2014, Blind, Cis, DENAQ, Dirk Trauner, Endorphins, G-protein coupled receptor, Ganglion cell, Gene therapy, GPCR, Neuron, Pain, Photoisomerization, Photoreceptor, Photoswitch, Retinal, Retinal prosthesis, Richard Kramer, See, Senses, Stem cell, Trans, Vision

Turning On A “Photoswitch” Helps Blind Mice See The Light

Our senses connect us to the world. Your visual system lets you know that there is a yellow car ahead of you, and your auditory system lets you know that… Read More

Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies Sensation and Perception

knowingneurons May 20, 2013March 5, 2017 Argus II, Biomedical engineer, Eye, Photoreceptors, Prosthesis, Prosthetic device, Retina, Retinal implant, Retinal prosthesis, Retinitis pigmentosa, RP, Second Sight, See, Vision

Retinal Prostheses: Restoring Vision to the Blind

Vision is arguably one of our most important senses. We rely on it to recognize color, shape, movement, distance, and perspective about the world around us. Although all parts of… Read More