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Eyewire
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
|July/August 2018
Mapping brain cells is a challenge. So is designing a game that helps you do it.
To understand how your brain works, scientists want to map every single neuron in it—nerve cells that move info around the body. That’s a big job: it takes days to map just one neuron, even with computers.
Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung decided that this was a job for . . . citizen science! In 2012, he and his coworkers created Eyewire, a game that lets everyone assist in mapping brain cells.
BUILDING A BETTER CITIZEN SCIENCE GAME
The Eyewire team wanted their game to be bold, fun, and easy to play. They built a multi-player game that’s a bit like a 3D puzzle or a really wild coloring book.
Then the real work started.
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