Motion-Sensing Cells in the Eye Let the Brain ‘Know’ About Directional Changes

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March 3, 2014

Neuroscience Retina Visual Processing

Basic Research

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In a detailed study of the neurons linking the eyes and brains of mice, biologists at UC San Diego discovered that the ability of our brains and those of other mammals to figure out and process directional movements is a result of the activation in the cortex of signals that originate from the direction-sensing cells in the retina of our eyes.