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An Eye for the Eye: Mapping Retinal Neurons with the Crowd

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Ville Miettinen

If you’ve ever had a close encounter of the lamppost kind you’ll know that the eye can sometimes deceive us. But considering just how complex the eye is you might think it would let us down more often.

You may remember from your high school biology classes that basically (very basically) light enters the eye through the pupil and falls on photo receptive cells called …

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