The eye's light-sensing retina taps different circuits depending on whether it is generating image-forming vision or carrying out a non-vision function such as regulating pupil size or sleep/wake ...

Using a sophisticated neural recording system developed by physicists at UC Santa Cruz, researchers were able to trace for the first time the neural circuitry that connects individual photoreceptors ...

Studies on the retina at Sinha lab at the University of Wisconsin could provide valuable insight for blindness treatment, UW senior and Undergraduate Research Intern Paul Derr said. Raunak Sinha, who ...

Prior investigations of rabbit and mouse retina have reported robust directionally selective retinal circuits impinging on directionally-selective ganglion cells (DSGC), while investigations of NHP ...

Mice use a specific neural pathway to detect shadows, and it can detect just about the dimmest shadows possible, according to new research from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. The ...

The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) has extraordinary regenerative abilities—the salamander can regrow lost limbs and repair ...

Brain circuits for vision develop without any kind of input from the retina in zebrafish. Animals possess specialized networks of neurons in the brain that receive signals about the outside world from ...