Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mice have complex visual systems that can clarify how vision works in people. Westend61/Getty Images Despite the nursery rhyme ...

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We are visual animals. Although we certainly use our hearing and other senses, the cliché, seeing is believing, resonates with us because we use our eyes to make sense of the world. Like other brain ...

Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells ...