{"id":189512,"date":"2024-05-16T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/from-light-to-insight-columbia-researchers-illuminate-the-mysteries-of-visual-perception"},"modified":"2024-05-16T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:27:20","slug":"from-light-to-insight-columbia-researchers-illuminate-the-mysteries-of-visual-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/from-light-to-insight-columbia-researchers-illuminate-the-mysteries-of-visual-perception","title":{"rendered":"From Light to Insight: Columbia Researchers Illuminate the Mysteries of Visual Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-light-to-insight-columbia-researchers-illuminate-the-mysteries-of-visual-perception2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fruit fly study reveals brain-cell circuitry that could underlie how creatures large and small see wavelengths of light as information-rich hues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perceiving something \u2013 anything \u2013 in your environment means becoming aware of what your senses are detecting. Today, for the first time, Columbia University neuroscientists identify brain-cell circuitry in fruit flies that converts raw sensory signals into color perceptions that can guide behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings are published today (May 16) in the journal <em>Nature Neuroscience<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fruit fly study reveals brain-cell circuitry that could underlie how creatures large and small see wavelengths of light as information-rich hues. Perceiving something \u2013 anything \u2013 in your environment means becoming aware of what your senses are detecting. Today, for the first time, Columbia University neuroscientists identify brain-cell circuitry in fruit flies that converts raw [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189512","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}