{"id":107807,"date":"2020-05-29T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/single-pixel-vision-in-fish-helps-scientists-understand-how-humans-can-spot-tiny-details"},"modified":"2020-05-29T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:47:22","slug":"single-pixel-vision-in-fish-helps-scientists-understand-how-humans-can-spot-tiny-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/single-pixel-vision-in-fish-helps-scientists-understand-how-humans-can-spot-tiny-details","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Single pixel\u2019 vision in fish helps scientists understand how humans can spot tiny details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/single-pixel-vision-in-fish-helps-scientists-understand-how-humans-can-spot-tiny-details.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently discovered \u2018single-pixel vision\u2019 in fish could help researchers understand how humans are able to spot tiny details in their environment\u2014like stars in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published this week, researchers at the University of Sussex found that <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/zebrafish\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">zebrafish<\/a> are able to use a single photoreceptor to spot their tiny <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/prey\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">prey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This photoreceptor is like an \u2018eye pixel\u2019 and seems to provide enough of a signal for the fish to go and investigate the stimulus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently discovered \u2018single-pixel vision\u2019 in fish could help researchers understand how humans are able to spot tiny details in their environment\u2014like stars in the sky. In a paper published this week, researchers at the University of Sussex found that zebrafish are able to use a single photoreceptor to spot their tiny prey. This photoreceptor is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}