{"id":259068,"date":"2017-01-09T12:38:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/01\/170109113812.htm"},"modified":"2017-01-09T12:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T16:38:12","slug":"the-science-of-babys-first-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=259068","title":{"rendered":"The science of baby&#8217;s first sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found more clues about the evolving brains of baby mammals as eyesight comes online. Using an imaging system to get neuron-level resolution, they showed how one specific brain circuit &#8212; the &#8216;ventral stream&#8217; &#8212; in mice came online immediately after birth, but another circuit &#8212; the &#8216;dorsal stream&#8217; &#8212; needed visual stimuli in order to mature. The experiments have helped to unveil how early-in-life visual experiences &#8212; simply trying to see &#8212; sculpt a particular subnetwork of brain circuitry we need in order to see properly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found more clues about the evolving brains of baby mammals as eyesight comes online. Using an imaging system to get neuron-level resolution, they showed how one specific brain circuit &#8212; the &#8216;ventral stream&#8217; &#8212; in mice came online immed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259069,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259068\/revisions\/259069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}