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Oh, yeah. Hello, you're listening to a special episode of the Science of Everything podcast, and I'm your host, James Fodor.

In this episode, we are going to talk about visual processing and encoding of information in the mouse visual system.

And this is the topic that I have written about in my master's thesis, which I just submitted last week.

So I thought that it might be interesting to talk

about the research that I've been doing this year with you guys and sort of share some of

the questions and approaches that I've been looking at. So this will be a bit more of an informal

episode. I'm just sort of going to talk a bit through my thesis and some of the questions that I

looked at. No real recommended pre-listening, although it might be useful to have a bit of a background

in some of the basics ideas of neuroscience,

so you could look at episode 38 neurons and synapses for that,

but I'll try to explain things as I go through them.

So the basic idea is I'm going to kind of explain

some of the background behind my thesis, and then I'll talk about

some of the methods that I use to kind of answer the questions that I'm looking at, and talk

a bit about the results and some of the implications that I think can be drawn from this.

So although I studied the mouse visual system, I think, I mean, the idea is that mice are used

as a model organism in neuroscience

increasingly, and there's a hope that we can learn something more generally about encoding

of information and processing of information that's applicable to other animals as well, not

just mice, although, of course, the focus of my research was on the mouse visual system,

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