Byline: Lisa M. Krieger
Oct. 10--Physicists from the University of California-Santa Cruz have built a tool that studies how the eye processes the busy world around it, transforming the chaos of incoming light into elegantly moving images.
The tiny device, which detects patterns of signals sent from the eye to the brain, could someday be used to help design retinal prosthetic devices -- or even artificial vision.
"We're able to see patterns of electrical activity in a large population of neurons," said Alan Litke of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics at UCSC. "There could be applications of this technology to many different areas of neuroscience."
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