Breaking the brain's code to cure blindness /

April 5 -- Neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg received a MacArthur Genius Award for figuring out, for the first time ever, how our retinas take images from the outside world and turn them into a neural "code" that the brain can understand. It started as a pure research project, but now she�...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Nirenberg, Sheila (Speaker)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	New York, NY : Bloomberg, 2016.
Series:	Academic Video Online
Subjects:	Blindness > Technological innovations. Blind > Services for. Cécité > Innovations. Personnes aveugles > Services. Blind > Services for documentary film. Feature films Documentary films Short films Documentary films. Short films. Feature films. Documentaires. Courts métrages.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	April 5 -- Neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg received a MacArthur Genius Award for figuring out, for the first time ever, how our retinas take images from the outside world and turn them into a neural "code" that the brain can understand. It started as a pure research project, but now she's building the code into a device that could bring sight to the blind. (Video by Alan Jeffries).
Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed March 21, 2018).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (7 min.)
Playing Time:	00:06:56