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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

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

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

52 Brain Facts Sensation and Perception

knowingneurons July 18, 2016June 5, 2019 52 Brain Facts, Audition, auditory, Bat, Blind, Cane, Click, Cortex, Echolocation, Hear, Hearing, Location, Navigate, Sense, Sight, Sound, Tap, Vision, Whale

Myth or Fact? Some People Can Use Echolocation

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