Neuroscientists generally think of the front end of the human visual system as a simple light detection system: The patterns produced when light falls on the retina are relayed to the visual cortex at the rear of the brain, ...
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of bio-researchers with members affiliated with institutions in the U.K., Switzerland and Hong Kong, has found that neurons in the primary visual cortex of mice listen to just a small subset of the ...
In findings that may lead to new treatments for cognitive disorders, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory zero in on how the brain forms memories of what has been seen.
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Using ecstasy significantly affects a person's ability to detect faces, shapes and patterns, a study has found.
Sep 29, 2014
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Before we had mobile phones, people had to use their own memory to store long phone numbers (or write them down). But getting those numbers into long-term memory could be a real pain.
Aug 26, 2014
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In the context of learning and memory, the primary visual cortex is the Rodney Dangerfield of cortical areas: It gets no respect. Also known as "V1," this brain region is the very first place where information from the retina ...
Mar 31, 2014
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that's the information volume transmitted every second with every quick eye movement from the eye to the cerebrum. Researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the University of Osnabrück describe the way those ...
Dec 17, 2013
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Experiments performed in the 1960s showed that rearing young animals with one eye closed dramatically altered brain development such that the parts of the visual cortex that would normally process information from the closed ...
Nov 22, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—The perception and processing of color has fascinated neuroscientists for a long time, as our brain influences our perception of it to such a degree that colors could be called an illusion. One mystery ...
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(Medical Xpress)—One way to increase our understanding of bilateral brains, like our own, is to inspect their paired sensory systems. In our visual system, the optic nerves normally combine at a place called the optic chiasm. ...
