{"id":212058,"date":"2025-04-22T02:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/they-mapped-every-neuron-in-a-grain-of-brain-and-revealed-how-we-see"},"modified":"2025-04-22T02:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:15:35","slug":"they-mapped-every-neuron-in-a-grain-of-brain-and-revealed-how-we-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/they-mapped-every-neuron-in-a-grain-of-brain-and-revealed-how-we-see","title":{"rendered":"They Mapped Every Neuron in a Grain of Brain \u2014 And Revealed How We See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/they-mapped-every-neuron-in-a-grain-of-brain-and-revealed-how-we-see2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information travels through the brain \u2013 revealing more than 500 million connections in a speck of mouse brain tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Using glowing neurons, high-powered electron microscopes, and deep learning, researchers captured both the physical wiring and real-time electrical activity of over 200,000 brain cells. The resulting 1.6-petabyte dataset is not just a technological marvel \u2013 it brings us closer to answering age-old questions about how our brains turn light into vision and how brain disorders might arise when this system breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Unraveling the Brain\u2019s Visual Code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information travels through the brain \u2013 revealing more than 500 million connections in a speck of mouse brain tissue. Using glowing neurons, high-powered electron microscopes, and deep learning, researchers captured both the physical wiring and real-time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212058","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=212058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}