Retina – Knowing Neurons

A Close Up Look Infographic – #8 – RGC Density

September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 Gil Torten 0 Comments Infographic, Neuroscience, Retina, Retinal ganglion cells, SciComm, Science, Vision, visual system

Did you know you have a special cell type in your retina whose density can give us an approximate sense of how good your vision is? Check out this… Read more

Brain Books

Book Review: The Spike

March 7, 2021March 7, 2021 Sean Noah 0 Comments Brain activity, Computational, Electricity, neural network, Retina, Spike, Synaptic function

Recently I asked one of my faculty advisors if he would ever write a popular science book. He’s a bestselling author in his own right, having written a textbook that… Read more

Feature image depicting a brain in the center of a circle with a visual illusion background. On the left is a hand, palm up, holding a heart. On the right, another hand is tentatively reaching out to grab it. Designed by Alexa Erdogan.

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Understanding Visual Illusions Can Make Us More Empathetic

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 McKenna Becker 1 Comment Bias, Blind spot, Cognition, Empathy, Illusion, Neuroplasticity, Optic nerve, Perception, philosophy, Photoreceptor, Politics, R.L. Gregory, Reality, Retina, Stroop Test, Top-Down Processing, V.S. Ramachandran, Visual Illusions

Philosophers and neuroscientists agree that if there is an objective reality, human beings can’t perceive it: philosophers refer to objective reality as a perception independent of any conscious awareness. Neuroscientists… Read more

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Lighting Up The Brain With Optogenetics

September 22, 2017September 22, 2017 Brainfacts.org 0 Comments Algae, Biomimicry, BrainFacts.org, Channelrhodopsin, Deep Brain Stimulation, Optogenetics, Parkinson's Disease, Retina, Video

Scientists studying pond scum discovered its peculiar ability to sense light, even without eyes. This discovery would eventually lead to a technique called optogenetics, one of the most powerful techniques… Read more

52 Brain Facts

Myth or Fact? Blind spots do not occur in healthy eyes.

January 4, 2016February 3, 2016 knowingneurons 0 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Blind, Blind spot, Brain, Eye, Nerve, Optic nerve, Retina

Brain Basics Sensation and Perception

Seeing Invisible Colors

July 1, 2015March 5, 2017 Joel Frohlich 3 Comments Blue, Cataract, Color, Cone, Eye, Frank Jackson, Gene therapy, Green, Lens, Light, Mantis Shrimp, Perception, Photoreceptor, Red, Retina, Ultraviolet, UV, Vision

What would the world be like without color? Imagine you are a neurophysiologist, who studies color perception. You know that light is a wave and that humans perceive color according… Read more

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Understanding the Visual System: A Conversation with Botond Roska

October 27, 2014March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments Blind, Botond Roska, Circuits, Computational, Cortex, David Hubel, Neural, Neuroscience, Retina, See, Sense, SfN14, Sight, Thalamus, Vision, 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… Read more

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Now Available in Trichromatic Color!

July 10, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments Brain, Color, Color Blindness, Colorblind, Cone, Dichromat, Eye, Opsin, Photoreceptor, Photoreceptors, Retina, Trichromatic Theory, Vision, Wavelength

“What is color?” What a good question! The answer is a bit tricky, but it starts with light. Color is the visual perception of different wavelengths of light reflecting off… Read more

Brain Basics Did You Know? Neuroscience Technologies Sensation and Perception

Bionic Eyes: Bringing Artificial Vision into Focus

May 22, 2013March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments Bionic Eyes, Blind, Eyes, Implant, macular degeneration, Mezzmer, Neural, Prosthesis, Retina, Retinitis pigmentosa, Vision

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Retinal Prostheses: Restoring Vision to the Blind

May 20, 2013March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 1 Comment Argus II, Biomedical engineer, Eye, Photoreceptors, Prosthesis, Prosthetic device, Retina, Retinal implant, Retinal prosthesis, Retinitis pigmentosa, RP, Second Sight, See, Vision

Vision is arguably one of our most important senses. We rely on it to recognize color, shape, movement, distance, and perspective about the world around us. Although all parts of… Read more

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