Each month, College of Science alumni have the opportunity to test their skills and solve a current science student exam question. These questions are posed in the monthly College of Science newsletter, Discovery Monthly. The very first Science Question of the Month was featured in the 2022 alumni magazine Discovery.
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The February Science Question of the Month, provided by psychology professor Fang Jiang, was pulled from a Neuroscience 105 exam.
Question
Fill in the blank.
The ___ can be described as a two-dimensional representation of the retinal image in the neurons of the primary visual cortex.
Solution
The retinotopic map can be described as a two-dimensional representation of the retinal image in the neurons of the primary visual cortex.
February's Winner
February's winner was John Erik Vanston, who was first to submit the correct response. Congratulations, John Erik Vanston!
Vanston graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019 with his doctoral degree in Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Vanston, originally from Austin, Texas, now lives in Phoenix. He works as a human factors scientific consultant.
