Mice watching film noir show the surprising complexity of vision cells

Only about 10 percent of these cells behaved as researchers expected

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Most of the vision cells studied in the brains of mice didn’t respond as scientists thought they would to movie clips of film noir and other visual scenes, a new study shows.

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The eerie opening shot of the slow drive of a bomb-carrying car in Orson Welles’ 1958 Touch of Evil prompts strong reactions in film watchers.