With the Lucy movie coming out, we’ve been really curious here at NeuWrite about what marvelous new life skills Scarlett Johansson will accrue, now that she can use more than 10% of her brain. As forward-thinking neuroscientists, we’ve been speculating: what would Lucy be able to do with such incredible and unprecedented brain power? The […]
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Wiring Eyes
posted by UCSDNeuro
We can probably all agree that eyes would just be useless bags of vitreous humor if not for their wiring to the brain. It’s the highly precise connections between specialized cell types within the eye and their specific target cells within the brain that allow us to visually experience our world. But how do these […]
Retinal Direction Selectivity… Reversed!!!
posted by UCSDNeuro
In a recent paper, “Visual Stimulation Reverses the Directional Preference of Direction-Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells” (2012), the lab of Dr. Marla Feller demonstrated direction reversal of a subgroup of Direction Selective Ganglion Cells in the mouse retina. The finding is contrary to the predominant dogma that direction selectivity is endowed by circuity that is hard-wired. […]
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