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…
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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…
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Understanding the Visual System: A Conversation with Botond Roska
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When we see the world, there is a huge amount of processing that occurs in the neural circuits of the retina, thalamus, and…
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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…
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