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SUMMARY:What Does the Eye Tell the Brain?:  A Journey from High Energy Phys
	ics to Neural Systems
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Alan Litke\, UC Santa Cruz\nHosted by: William Klein\
	nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/internal//posters/2009_Spring/04_Litke.pdf\n
	\nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n\nAbstract: The back of
	 the eye is lined by an extraordinary biological pixel detector\, the retin
	a. This living neural network is able to extract vital information about th
	e external visual world\, and transmit this information in a timely manner 
	to the brain. In this talk\, after a brief introduction to the retina\, I w
	ill describe how we measure its functional properties\, show what we have l
	earned about its functional organization\, and discuss studies aimed at gui
	ding the design of retinal prosthetic devices. This project was inspired by
	 the development of particle detectors for high energy physics experiments\
	, including the search for the Higgs Boson.
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