Richard Axel, Neuroscience, and Sarah Sze, Visual Arts / Alan Kanzer Artist-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Institute, discussed the construction of reality in the first of a new series of conversations between artists and neuroscientists on the Manhattanville campus.

Moderated by Carol Becker, School of the Arts, and Rui Costa, Neuroscience.

Co-presented by the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute

A pheromone circuit in the brain of Drosophila (the fruit fly). These circuits help the brain process scents coming from the outside world (Credit: Axel Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman institute)