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    Sheila Nirenberg is a neuroscientist and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College who is exploring how the brain encodes visual information and developing an alternative approach to restoring sight by bypassing damaged photoreceptor cells and interacting directly with ganglion cells, adapting her discoveries in neural coding to machine vision algorithms with the goal of advancing robotic vision and brain-machine interfaces.

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    Sheila Nirenberg is a neuroscientist and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College who is exploring how the brain encodes visual information and developing an alternative approach to restoring sight by bypassing damaged photoreceptor cells and interacting directly with ganglion cells, adapting her discoveries in neural coding to machine vision algorithms with the goal of advancing robotic vision and brain-machine interfaces.

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    MODERN GENIUS

    Sheila Nirenberg

    Hernando Cascante Aguilar.

    English IV

    Who is she?
    She lives in New York

    Neuroscientist

    Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College

    What she does


    She is exploring questions about how the brain encodes

    visual information.

    Developing an alternative approach to restoring sight after

    photoreceptor cell degeneration.

    How?
    Instead of trying to replace the lost photoreceptor cells

    Nirenberg has developed a method for bypassing the


    damaged photoreceptor cells entirely and interacting
    directly with the ganglion cells.
    She is adapting and applying her discoveries in neural

    coding to machine vision algorithms with the goal of


    advancing the state of the art in robotic vision and brainmachine interfaces.

    How it would work

    Video
    (Play from 1:52 to 4:22)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa2JfigaNcs

    Bibliography:
    http://www.macfound.org/fellows/899/

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