Neuroscientists find famous optical illusion surprisingly potent (w/ video)
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have come up with new insight into the brain processes that cause the following optical illusion:
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(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have come up with new insight into the brain processes that cause the following optical illusion:
Jun 27, 2011
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Recognizing motion requires an enormous amount of computing power from the brain. A new study from Alexander Borst's department at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence shows how the fly brain masters this ...
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Researchers are learning more about what leads to traumatic brain injury, though they have to be creative to work around limited access to the brain.
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University of Sydney and Fudan University scientists have discovered human brain signals traveling across the outer layer of neural tissue that naturally arrange themselves to resemble swirling spirals.
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