Why is it that every axon in an adult mammal has a target cell (muscle cell or other neuron) with which it makes synaptic contact?

Light enters the eye through an opening in the center of the iris called the:

When researchers average together snippets of EEG corresponding to individual events, this method is referred to as:

Damage to the ventral stream may interfere with:

Alcohol can damage the developing brain by:

Walking down a dark street at night, Joe is startled by the movement of a cat that he sees out of the “corner of his eye.” Why is he is unable to see the cat when he looks directly at it?

Most retinal cones are concentrated in the:

If you cut the optic nerve of a newt, what happens?

Early in development, the nervous system begins as a:

Axons from the lateral geniculate nucleus project mainly to which area of the cerebral cortex?