What the brain saw
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 10:40
in Psychology & Sociology
The moment we open our eyes, we perceive the world with apparent ease. But the question of how neurones in the retina encode what we 'see' has been a tricky one. A key obstacle to understanding how our brain functions is that its components - neurones - respond in highly nonlinear ways to complex stimuli, making stimulus-response relationships extremely difficult to discern...