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A Close Up Look 11 – Pupils

diciembre 21, 2021diciembre 21, 2021 Gil Torten animal vision, Evolution, Light, Sight, Visión

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… Leer más

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception

When the blind can see again: A critical question of perception

septiembre 28, 2016junio 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Acuity, Blind, Cat, Cataracts, Color, Critical Period, Deprivation, Desarrollo, Hubel, Illusion, Kitten, Light, Monocular, Oversegementation, Percepción, Perceptual, Project Prakash, See, Sight, synaptic plasticity, Touch, Visión, Visual, Visual cortex, Wiesel

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… Leer más

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

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception

What is Synesthesia?

septiembre 13, 2016junio 5, 2019 Kayleen Schreiber Audition, auditory, Cerebro, Color, Colors, Dendrite, Hear, Hearing, Mix, Mixed, Music, Percepción, See, Sense, Senses, Sight, Synesthesia, Visión

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.… Leer más

52 Brain Facts Sensation and Perception

Myth or Fact? Some People Can Use Echolocation

julio 18, 2016junio 5, 2019 knowingneurons 52 Brain Facts, Audition, auditory, Bat, Blind, Cane, Click, Corteza, Echolocation, Hear, Hearing, Location, Navigate, Sense, Sight, Sound, Tap, Visión, Whale

Sensation and Perception

The Spectacularly Colorful World of the Mantis Shrimp

junio 22, 2016junio 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Behavior, Blue, Cerebro, Color, Cono, Verde, Hue, Mantis Shrimp, Nanometer, Photoreceptor, Physiology, Rainbow, Receptor, Red, Scientist, See, Sight, Spectral discrimination task, Visión, Yellow

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… Leer más

Did You Know? Interviews Sensation and Perception SfN 2014

Understanding the Visual System: A Conversation with Botond Roska

octubre 27, 2014marzo 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Blind, Botond Roska, Circuits, Computational, Corteza, David Hubel, Neural, Neurociencia, Retina, See, Sense, SfN14, Sight, Thalamus, Visión, Visual

[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… Leer más