How does the brain turn waves of light into experiences of color?
Perceiving something — anything — in your surroundings is to become aware of what your senses are detecting. Today, Columbia University neuroscientists identify, for the first time, brain-cell circuitry in fruit flies that converts raw sensory signals into color perceptions that can guide behavior. Their findings were pulbished in the journal Nature Neuroscience. “Many of … Read more
