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The article could leave the impression that the birds are watching the flashes of light, like watching TV. For a layman article, they failed to mention that bra
by computator 7y ago
The article could leave the impression that the birds are watching the flashes of light, like watching TV. For a layman article, they failed to mention that brain of the bird has been cut open or probed and that the flashes of light are shone directly on the neurons.{1} I guess they thought it was too icky to make that clear.
Optogenetics seems like a real breakthrough. Great quote from Wikipedia: "The far-fetched possibility of using light for selectively controlling precise neural activity was thought of by Francis Crick in 1999."
{1} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics