How does the nervous system take patterns of light at the eye, sound at the ear, or touch on the skin and determine properties of the surrounding environment?..

“…Fundamental problems in this area include how such patterns of energy are transduced by sensory systems, how they lead to the perception of a coherent 3D world and recognition of objects by the brain, and how they support adaptive behavior. To understand this nearly miraculous achievement requires attacking the problem at several levels simultaneously: from molecular mechanisms of information storage and signaling, to the neural networks that code and process sensory information, to the functional processes of perception, recognition, and behavioral control that must be implemented by the brain.”

http://www.brainscience.brown.edu/research/sensory.html

How does the nervous system take patterns of light at the eye, sound at the ear, or touch on the skin and determine properties of the surrounding environment?..

“…Fundamental problems in this area include how such patterns of energy are transduced by sensory systems, how they lead to the perception of a coherent 3D world and recognition of objects by the brain, and how they support adaptive behavior. To understand this nearly miraculous achievement requires attacking the problem at several levels simultaneously: from molecular mechanisms of information storage and signaling, to the neural networks that code and process sensory information, to the functional processes of perception, recognition, and behavioral control that must be implemented by the brain.”

http://www.brainscience.brown.edu/research/sensory.html

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