Connections & Re-Wirings
The human visual system isn’t complete when a baby is born. It develops as a baby sees things. How does that happen? Also, as vision fails due to eye disease, how do the retinal neurons react? Two research projects studied these phenomena and their findings provided more information on how the eye and brain work […]
Inside the Visual System
There’s more to vision than meets the eye. Research has shown that the neurological processes that lead to vision are more involved than previously thought. Work at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that neurons in the brain’s visual system add and shed synapses at a fast […]