The researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Salk Institute in La Jolla, California have made an important discovery relating to secrets of visions in humans and other primates.
The joint research team has found out a type of retinal nerve cell that enables humans, monkeys and apes see motion.
They developed a new detection system to study how the eye responds to light and sees the world around it. It detects patterns of signals sent from the eye to the brain. It also records the electrical activity of more than 250 cells simultaneously.
Explaining the latest findings, Alan Litke, adjunct professor at UCSC revealed,
This has been a fantastic journey through high-energy physics, neurobiology, technology, and human health.
He added,
People have looked at cell morphology, but that can’t tell us in any detail how the cell responds to light. If we’re interested in how the retina is processing visual information, we really want to focus a movie on it and see what it reacts to — to find out if it’s seeing color, responding to motion, or whatever it might be doing.
Via: Live Science
