": A decades-old mystery is solved For more than 60 years, scientists have been trying to figure out how the brain manages to take basic visual information input-essentially, tiny small points of light -and transform it into lines, objects, and the entire reality we experience. Now, a new study published in Science, the result of a collaboration between researchers from the Hebrew University and the Technical University of Munich, has succeeded in proving for the first time how this mechanism works. Prof. Israel Nelken, the study's leader: "The main contribution lies in how these methods will be used in the future. They will allow us to look deeper into what nerve cells do in the cerebral cortex."