What does the world look like through the eyes of a neuroscientist?
Guest Blogger and Neuroscientist Paul King of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley weighs in on Quora. Q: What are some things …
Open challenge: automatic 3D segmentation of neurites in EM
SNEMI3D started! Group of pyramidal neurons of mouse cortex reconstructed from EM sections (D. Berger). We have just lunched SNEMI3D, the first public …
Featured EyeWirer: Karen Lynn Robinson
A behind the scenes look at the EyeWire community. Meet the EyeWirers who are mapping the retinal connectome. This week’s Featured EyeWirer is Karen Lynn …
How does the brain keep track of time?
Neuroscientist Paul King of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley weighs in on Quora. Q: How does the brain keep track of time? …
Which languages, database and visualization engines does EyeWire use?
Clément Renaud asks a technical question about EyeWire on Quora. Matt Balkam, one of our developers, answers. How is Eyewire structured? Which …
A New Way To Play EyeWire
A synapse! Yesterday we completed the first starburst cell. Today we have more news: the first synapse has been discovered in EyeWire …
How to Explore Different Cells in EyeWire
We’ve mapped over 50 cells in EyeWire. Here’s how to explore them. If you’re in active gameplay, click “return to overview’ in …
The Starburst Neuron is Complete!
We’ve finished our first starburst amacrine cell! This was a very challenging neuron, because its dendrites were so thin and difficult to …
Featured EyeWirer: Beckee Morrison
A behind the scenes look at the EyeWire community. Meet the EyeWirers who are mapping the retinal connectome. This week’s Featured EyeWirer is Beckee Morrison. …
How Do We See In Color?
Cones, the photoreceptor cells in the retina responsible for color vision, recognize either red, green or blue (these primary colors correspond to …
Overview Temporarily Down
Due to a server error, the EyeWire overview is temporarily down. This means you won’t see a beautiful spinning neuron when you …
Featured EyeWirer: Jean-Francois Gariépy
A behind the scenes look at the EyeWire community. Meet the EyeWirers who are mapping the retinal connectome. This week’s Featured EyeWirer is Jean-Francois …