Neuroscience
Seeing is believing: How brains make sense of the visual world
If your eyes deceive you, blame your brain. Many optical illusions work because what we see clashes with what we expect to see.
Jul 1, 2015
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Why do our photoreceptors respond to light by turning off?
(Medical Xpress)—An enduring neurobiological mystery is why do vertebrate rods and cones shut down their transmitter release in response to a light stimulus. If that particular question is too broad, then consider a slight ...
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Researchers find where visual memories are made
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.
Jan 21, 2015
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Virtual motion, real consequences
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich researchers have shown that virtual optical stimuli can lead to aftereffects that significantly alter our perception of self-motion. This finding has implications for safe use of emerging ...
Nov 25, 2014
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Waking up the visual system
The ways that neurons in the brain respond to a given stimulus depends on whether an organism is asleep, drowsy, awake, paying careful attention or ignoring the stimulus. However, while the properties of neural circuits in ...
Oct 3, 2014
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A game of ping-pong for the eyes
Enjoying the landscape when traveling by train – while this activity sounds like pure relaxation, in reality, it requires maximum performance from our eyes' motor system. To prevent blurring of the passing image, our eyes ...
Jun 4, 2014
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Releasing the neuronal brakes for learning
(Medical Xpress)—Learning can only occur if certain neuronal "brakes" are released. As the group led by Andreas Lüthi at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research has now discovered, learning processes in ...
May 22, 2014
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How vision captures sound now somewhat uncertain
(Medical Xpress)—When listening to someone speak, we also rely on lip-reading and gestures to help us understand what the person is saying.
Jan 16, 2014
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Neuronal activity in the visual cortex controlled by both where the eyes are looking and what they see
Even though our eyes are constantly moving, the brain perceives the external world as stationary—a feat achieved by integrating images acquired by the retina with information about the direction of the gaze. An international ...
Sep 20, 2013
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Scientists pinpoint proteins vital to long-term memory
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a group of proteins essential to the formation of long-term memories.
Sep 12, 2013
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