{"id":117992,"date":"2021-01-03T07:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T15:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/tracing-the-many-paths-of-vision"},"modified":"2021-01-03T07:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T15:22:43","slug":"tracing-the-many-paths-of-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/tracing-the-many-paths-of-vision","title":{"rendered":"Tracing the Many Paths of Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tracing-the-many-paths-of-vision.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Study supports the theory that highly specialized neurons in the brain are key to translating diverse visual stimuli into behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Max Planck Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the bottleneck through which all visual impressions flow from the retina to the brain. A team from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, University of California Berkeley and Harvard University created a molecular catalog that describes the different types of these neurons. In this way, individual RGC types could be systematically studied and linked to a specific connection, function and behavioral response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Study supports the theory that highly specialized neurons in the brain are key to translating diverse visual stimuli into behavior. Source: Max Planck Institute. Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the bottleneck through which all visual impressions flow from the retina to the brain. A team from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117992","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}