Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Mapping Color Vision in HD

Mapping Color Vision in HD
Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:00:00 -0500

Illustration of the retinal readout system that allows recording of signals from hundreds of cells.

Eyes are image detectors that can gather many different types of data: light and dark, a rainbow of colors--even motion. Researchers know that many different cell types in the retina are involved, but they aren't sure how many there are, what they all do, or how they are connected together.

The NSF-supported research of high energy physicist Alan Litke, carried out in an interdisciplinary, international collaboration of physicists, neurobiologists and experts in nanofabrication, ...

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