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The Anatomy of Hearing
Explore the anatomy of our auditory system, which is responsible for perceiving the surrounding pressure changes we know as sound. Find out more...
The Anatomy of Movement
Learn how the brain guides muscles to contract and coordinate, delivering the force needed to accomplish a motor task and to react to the properties of the surrounding environment. Find out more...
The Anatomy of Vision
From a beautiful champagne sunset, to crisp, ice-capped mountains, to deep blue oceans under silver moonlight, the world is filled with rich and varied images that humans perceive effortlessly. Learn how the anatomy of the human visual system provides insight into our robust capacity for visual perception. Find out more...
Central Nervous System Overview
Learn about an astonishingly complex system of creases, projections, fibers, branching cells, colors, and connections known as the human nervous system. Find out more...
Century of the Brain
Studies of the brain may be our best hope for finally understanding some of the most perplexing aspects of humanity. But is it possible to fully understand the very mechanism with which we understand? Find out more...
 Cortical Implant Represents Small but Significant Step in the Quest for Artificial Vision
A 62 year old man identified only as "Jerry" received national attention in January by performing a relatively simple task: he located a black cap hanging on a white wall, picked up the cap, walked across the room and placed the cap on top of a mannequin's head. The extraordinary thing about this event was that Jerry has been blind for the past 26 years. Find out more...
A Day in the Life of a Brain Meet Sumarri, an eight-year old girl from Oakland, California. Join us as we spend a typical day with Sumarri. We'll see that her brain is very busy keeping this active little girl going! Find out more...
The Drug of Choice: Caffeine and the Brain Five thousand years of ingesting it, and we're just now getting around to figuring out what it is exactly that caffeine is doing to our bodies and brains. Find out more...
Hearing Disorders
Investigate the symptoms that occur following damage to the auditory system, including difficulties with hearing and balance. Find out more...
How We Hear
With our auditory systems we detect changes, locate their origin, and assign meaning to the sonic patterns that we hear every day. Here, we'll learn how our systems of hearing work together. Find out more...
How Vision Works
Learn about the neural mechanisms of visual perception with rich insights into how the brain handles complex visual situations. Find out more...
Interactive Receptive Field Mapping
Conduct your own experiment! Map the receptive fields of retinal neurons using an interactive demonstration that recreates the pioneering studies of receptive field research. Find out more...
This experiment requires Macromedia's Shockwave.
Overview of Receptive Fields
What is a receptive field? And how do receptive fields help the brain process information? Find out how neural receptive fields enable us to detect features. Find out more...
The Question Of Taste Is taste really all in your mouth? Find out more about the molecular mechanism underlying taste perception and how hot peppers may one day lead to drugs that are able to block pain signals. Find out more...
Testing the Brain: What Neurological Exams Can Tell Us About Ourselves
Despite the progress in high-tech imaging, the art of the physical exam remains a valuable tool for diagnostic assessment of neurological injury; moreover, the standard exam provides insight into how the brain and body interact. Find out more...
Vision Disorders
Join us as we explore common injuries and disorders of the visual system, from minor problems that only cause us to wear glasses, to more serious injuries that can result in total blindness. Find out more...
State of The Art: Progress Towards Restoring Vision
Scientists have developed astonishing technologies that may soon help restore sight to people with profound retinal damage. Find out more...
An Anthropologist on Mars
by Oliver Sacks 
 Neuroguide.com
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