Tag: visual perception

  • Nation & World

    Making sense of how the blind ‘see’ color

    A new Harvard study suggests that although the congenitally blind experience abstract visual phenomena such as rainbows and color differently, they still share with the sighted a common understanding of them.

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    Conceptual illustration of MRI scans.
  • Nation & World

    Focusing on the fovea

    Researchers have created the first cellular atlas of the primate retina and discovered that, while the fovea and peripheral retina share most of the same cell types, the cells are in different proportions, and show different gene expression patterns.

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    detail of an eye