{"id":219738,"date":"2025-08-09T05:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-insights-into-how-the-visual-system-synchronizes-visual-information"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:31:51","slug":"new-insights-into-how-the-visual-system-synchronizes-visual-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-insights-into-how-the-visual-system-synchronizes-visual-information","title":{"rendered":"New insights into how the visual system synchronizes visual information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-insights-into-how-the-visual-system-synchronizes-visual-information2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses. While we perceive simultaneously occurring sensory stimuli as being synchronized, the generation and transmission speeds of individual sensory signals can vary greatly.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), University of Basel and Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich recently carried out a study aimed at better understanding how the human visual system achieves this synchronization, regardless of the speed at which visual signals travel. Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-025-02011-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i>, reports a previously unknown mechanism through which the retina synchronizes the arrival times of different visual signals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can see because photoreceptors in the retina at the back of our eyes detect light and encode information about the visual world in the form of electrical signals,\u201d Felix Franke and Annalisa Bucci, senior author and first author of the paper, respectively, told Medical Xpress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses. While we perceive simultaneously occurring sensory stimuli as being synchronized, the generation and transmission speeds of individual sensory signals can vary greatly. Researchers at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219738","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=219738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}