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...

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