The work of Canadian David Hubel and Swede Torsten Wiesel of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore provided clues to how the brain sees images provided by our eyes. The two jabbed a small microelectrode into a brain cell in the visual cortex at the back…

Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience — and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist…