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The Eye-Opening Neuroscience Behind Your Vision
How the brain helps us see is a captivating subject in the world of neuroscience.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
The Nature of Seeing: How the Brain Constructs the Visual World
Michael Buice from the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, explains how our brains construct the visual world that surrounds us.
  • Allen Institute
Ask a Scientist: Eyes at Night
Cheri Wiggs explains what our eyes do while we sleep and why we can't see colors well in the dark.
  • National Eye Institute
  • 2 min
Developing Next-Generation Tools for Imaging the Eye
The National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals Initiative is taking the next step to restoring vision through regeneration of the optic nerve and retina.
  • National Eye Institute
  • 6 min
How Powerful Illusions Reveal Coding In Your Brain
Your eyes can play tricks on you, and visual illusions take advantage of these glitches in our perception.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Do We See The Same Red?
How do the various wavelengths of visible light become what we know as color?
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Staying Connected
Immune cells help shape and maintain connections between brain cells.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
The Visual System: How Your Eyes Work
Learn how the different parts of your eyes work together so you can see and make sense of the world around you.
  • National Eye Institute
Insights to the Visual System
New discoveries regarding connections in the retina may provide clues in the search for a treatment for eye disease.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
A Visual Arrangement
During development, cells in the retina converge to form the nerve that will transmit visual information to the brain.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
SfN Brain Awareness Video Contest Winners
The Society for Neuroscience has announced the winners of the 2015 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
  • The Dana Foundation
Mysteries of the Brain: Perceiving Brain
Neuroscientists are studying how the brain determines what information is most important in everyday scenes.
  • National Science Foundation
Oliver Sacks: What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds
Renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks passed away this weekend. In this video, he discusses Charles Bonnet syndrome and hallucinations.
  • TED

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