What the Brain Saw
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 08:30
in Psychology & Sociology
The moment we open our eyes, we perceive the world with apparent ease. But the question of how neurons 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--neurons--respond in highly nonlinear ways to complex stimuli, making stimulus-response relationships extremely difficult to discern.