​知觉焰火 Perception spark

Our brain is a sophisticated and complex system composed of ~100 billion interconnected neurons. These connections of neurons may seem disorganized, but they are cleverly arranged and contain incredible wonders.

Every moment, a huge amount of neurons in the brain are processing the complex information we receive and transmitting it in the form of electrical signals (action potentials) to different brain regions. This process is often difficult to perceive.

The authors magnify the neuronal cells in the microscopic world tens of thousands of times to reconstruct the morphology of neurons in their natural state, and use intelligent hardware technology to simulate the trajectory of different sensory information encoded in the brain in the form of electrical signals for transmission and processing. The blue beam represents the electrical signals received by tactile sensory neurons and the white beam represents the electrical signals received by auditory neurons.

The viewer can trigger a specific neuron with sound or touch at a specific location, and the information is received at the dendrites of that neuron, processed by the cell body (soma), and finally generated output from the axon, and the light beam representing the information is passed to other neuronal dendrites in different layers.

When the viewer interacts with this installation, the same information transfer and processing is happening in their brains. When we watch fireworks light up the night sky, the similar electrical signals are being generated in our brains. We use this work to artfully illustrate scientific phenomena so that everyone can experience the beauty of neuroscience in new ways.