UChicagoScienceAsArt
Flame of consciousness
By Eugene Yu Ji
This image is generated from a spike-field coherogram representing neural activities of a mouse's olfactory bulb during a recording trial of a smelling-and-acting experiment. The red area shows a high-level coherent activities in the gamma band among neurons, which lasts less than a second. During this period, the mouse attempts to identify whether he encounters an odor indicating his favorite sugar pellet. Neural activities in gamma bands are fundamental for identifying similarities and differences in the perceptual world for almost all mammalian animals.
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This image was submitted to the University of Chicago's 2023 Science as Art competition. From fossils to fly anatomy, the entries display the gorgeous landscape of scientific research going on every day at the University of Chicago. Imags were submitted from undergraduates, graduate students, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members. Read more.
Image may only be reprinted with credit to the authors and the University of Chicago.
Flame of consciousness
By Eugene Yu Ji
This image is generated from a spike-field coherogram representing neural activities of a mouse's olfactory bulb during a recording trial of a smelling-and-acting experiment. The red area shows a high-level coherent activities in the gamma band among neurons, which lasts less than a second. During this period, the mouse attempts to identify whether he encounters an odor indicating his favorite sugar pellet. Neural activities in gamma bands are fundamental for identifying similarities and differences in the perceptual world for almost all mammalian animals.
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This image was submitted to the University of Chicago's 2023 Science as Art competition. From fossils to fly anatomy, the entries display the gorgeous landscape of scientific research going on every day at the University of Chicago. Imags were submitted from undergraduates, graduate students, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members. Read more.
Image may only be reprinted with credit to the authors and the University of Chicago.