I’m lying on my bed, with waves of pulsating light coming in and out, changing color, with shapes occasionally manifesting themselves, turning sometimes into people, sometimes into objects, and, more often than not, strange bunnymen, a la Donny Darko (albeit significantly less creepy). After ten minutes of this, I’ve had enough; taking the halved Ping-Pong […]
Tag Archives: visual system
Hallucinating without drugs, the profundity of silence, and the thalamocortical circuit
posted by Matt Boisvert
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 […]
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