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Gazing into the mind’s eye with mice – how neuroscientists are seeing human vision more clearly

  • Written by Bilal Haider, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageMice have complex visual systems that can clarify how vision works in people.Westend61/Getty Images

Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells communicate and work together to create a mental...

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