Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Cognitive Neuroscience Links 09/22/2009

  • The Neitzes, with Katherine Mancuso and other colleagues, used the technique of gene therapy to introduce the gene for the missing red pigment into the cone cells of the monkeys’ retinas. Several months after the therapy, Dalton and Sam were able to see a world in which red hues were visible and oranges no longer looked like lemons, the researchers say in the current issue of Nature.

    tags: vision, color, genetics, perception, grue, cogsci


Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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