Gazing into the mind’s eye with mice – how neuroscientists are seeing human vision more clearly

By: Bilal Haider, Georgia Institute of Technology, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: December 16, 2025

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Last Updated: 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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By Bilal Haider, Georgia Institute of Technology

Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells communicate and work together to create a mental picture of the visual world.

I am a neuroscientist who studies how brain cells drive visual perception and how these processes can fail in conditions such as autism. My …

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