DO WE SEE THROUGH A MICROSCOPE?

Do rats see like we see?

Like primates, the rat brain areas thought to be involved in visual object recognition are arranged in a hierarchy.

How Do We See Color?

WHAT IS COLOR GOOD FOR? Although our distant ancestors probably first used color vision to find fruit in trees, it is still useful to us. Even though most of us will never have to defuse a bomb (Figure 1), colors are used to send all sorts of important messages in the modern world. Traffic lights turn from green to red to tell us to stop (Figure 2), warning lights turn orange on the car dashboa...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Do we see things better when we know grammar?

Language affects perception. But how? Recent findings (Boutonnet & Lupyan, 2015; Bocanegra, Poletiek & Zwaan, submitted) suggest a dissociation between perception that is mediated as compared to not mediated by language. One explanation is that language –that is combinatorial in naturestresses the separate features of objects. We investigated the effect of combinatorial (two words) and non-comb...

Do we see what we should see? Describing non-covalent interactions in protein structures including precision

The power of X-ray crystal structure analysis as a technique is to 'see where the atoms are'. The results are extensively used by a wide variety of research communities. However, this 'seeing where the atoms are' can give a false sense of security unless the precision of the placement of the atoms has been taken into account. Indeed, the presentation of bond distances and angles to a false prec...