A commander cell coordinates how the eye sees
While scientists once believed the eye processed color and motion in isolation, a specific neuron acts as a leader to combine these signals.
For decades, the human eye was thought to function like a series of independent cables. Scientists believed that as soon as light hit the retina, information about color, contrast, and motion was split into more than a dozen parallel pathways that never touched. This separation was supposed to help the brain process complex scenes with lightning speed.
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