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How Playing an Instrument Affects Your Brain
Playing a musical instrument is the brain equivalent of a full-body workout.
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Amacrine Cells
Amacrine cells fine tune electrical signaling in the retina.
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Vision
Light-sensing cells convert tiny packets of light into your view of the world.
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How Do 3-D Glasses Work?
Donning a pair of 3-D glasses at the movies can us immerse in the action. But the technology that makes 3-D movies work has always existed inside our brains.
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How AI Helps Us Understand Human Vision
Artificial intelligence is helping neuroscientists understand human vision — which, in turn, can help engineers create better technologies.
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Retinal Ganglion Cells
Retinal ganglion cells are the conduit between the eyes and the brain.
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The Anti-Blind Spot
One tiny region, the fovea, has more cells — and therefore sharper vision — than the rest of the eye.
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The Cones That Color Your World
Whether it’s a rainbow or a rose, these bristle-like cells let you know what colors you’re seeing.
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Molyneux's Problem: Blind Philosophy
If you were blind since birth and learned how to identify objects by your sense of touch, could you distinguish those objects by sight alone if your vision was suddenly restored?
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Before You Had Eyes
Optic vesicles grow into an empty pathway where the brain lays wiring that becomes the optic nerve.
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A Perceptive Lens: Marlene Behrmann
Cognitive scientist, Marlene Behrmann, investigates what can be learned about visual perception through injury and disorders.
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Rods and Cones
It takes two photoreceptors in the eye, differing in size and function but working together, to let us see the world.
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