{"id":166334,"date":"2023-06-24T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T21:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/octo-eyes-unraveling-octopus-vision-with-neural-mapping"},"modified":"2023-06-24T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T21:22:22","slug":"octo-eyes-unraveling-octopus-vision-with-neural-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/octo-eyes-unraveling-octopus-vision-with-neural-mapping","title":{"rendered":"Octo-eyes: Unraveling Octopus Vision with Neural Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/octo-eyes-unraveling-octopus-vision-with-neural-mapping2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Researchers mapped neural activity in an octopus\u2019s visual system, revealing striking similarities to humans.<\/p>\n<p>The team observed neural responses to light and dark spots, thereby creating a map resembling the organization of the human brain. Interestingly, octopuses and humans last shared a common ancestor around 500 million years ago, suggesting independent evolution of such complex visual systems.<\/p>\n<p>These findings contribute greatly to our understanding of cephalopod vision and brain structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers mapped neural activity in an octopus\u2019s visual system, revealing striking similarities to humans. The team observed neural responses to light and dark spots, thereby creating a map resembling the organization of the human brain. Interestingly, octopuses and humans last shared a common ancestor around 500 million years ago, suggesting independent evolution of such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166334","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}