Visual Archives - Knowing Neurons

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

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 Did You Know?Neuroscience Art Sensation and Perception

knowingneurons May 7, 2014March 5, 2017 Art, Colorful, Kaschube, Orientation tuning, Pinwheel, Primary visual cortex, Rebecca A. Zarate, Science, Universality in the Evolution of Orientation Columns in the Visual Cortex, V1, Visual, Wolf

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… Read More