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Infographics A Close Up Look Neuroscience Technologies

Gil Torten March 27, 2023March 26, 2023 Argus II, blindness, electrode array, electrode implant, eye disease, macula, Orion, Retinal prosthesis, Visual cortex, Vivani

A Close Up Look 22 – Visual Prostheses

In this next Close Up Look, Gil Torten investigates the pros and cons of potential retinal prosthesis that can restore visual ability!… Read More

Infographics

Gil Torten January 11, 2021February 25, 2021 Color Vision, Cones, Eye, Opsin, Vision, Visual cortex

A Close Up Look Infographic – #2 – Rods and Cones

How do rods and cones work in the eyes of the animals around us? Learn about the differences between the human eye and the one of the bee, snake… 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 Did You Know?Popular Articles SfN 2014

Kate Fehlhaber October 29, 2014March 5, 2017 1981, Activity, Columns, David Hubel, Electrophysiology, Neurons, Neuroscience, Nobel Prize, Recording, SfN14, Topographical map, Torsten Wiesel, Vision, Visual, Visual cortex

Hubel and Wiesel & the Neural Basis of Visual Perception

Snap! Crackle! Pop! Those are the sounds that Professors David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel heard in the early 1950s when they recorded from neurons in the visual cortex of a… Read More

Learning and Memory Neuro News Popular Articles Sensation and Perception

Jillian L. Shaw February 27, 2014March 5, 2017 2014, Autism, Cross-modal plasticity, Learning, Nature Neuroscience, Oxytocin, Oxytocin mediates early experience–dependent cross-modal plasticity in the sensory cortices, Sensory cortex, Sensory deprivation, Visual cortex, Yu, Zheng

Heightened Senses: Cross-Modal Neuroplasticity

Envision this scenario. It’s the end of a grueling hike and you’re racing back to civilization along a trail in the mountains as darkness falls. You’ve become separated from your… Read More