{"id":234935,"date":"2026-04-10T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/surprising-finding-in-the-eye-may-explain-how-we-see-in-low-light"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:31:41","slug":"surprising-finding-in-the-eye-may-explain-how-we-see-in-low-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/surprising-finding-in-the-eye-may-explain-how-we-see-in-low-light","title":{"rendered":"Surprising finding in the eye may explain how we see in low light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprising-finding-in-the-eye-may-explain-how-we-see-in-low-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Yale School of Medicine (YSM) study has uncovered surprising new details about how our eyes process what we see. When we look at something, our visual system breaks down different aspects of the scene\u2014such as color, contrast, and motion\u2014and processes those components separately. It\u2019s called parallel visual processing and it\u2019s what allows our brains to work out what we\u2019re seeing so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>This separation of information starts in the retina, and scientists have thought that separation is maintained as the information travels through the visual system. But in a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/abstract\/S0896-6273(25)00999-7\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Neuron<\/i><\/a>, researchers have found that information channels are more integrated than previously thought. This may help cells process weak visual signals, such as low-light conditions, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that while different channels can deliver their own features, they\u2019re also interconnected by underlying electrical circuitry,\u201d says Yao Xue, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the department of ophthalmology and visual science at YSM and the study\u2019s first author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Yale School of Medicine (YSM) study has uncovered surprising new details about how our eyes process what we see. When we look at something, our visual system breaks down different aspects of the scene\u2014such as color, contrast, and motion\u2014and processes those components separately. It\u2019s called parallel visual processing and it\u2019s what allows our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234935","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\/234935","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}