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Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...

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Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what ...

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Neurons in visual cortex of the brain ‘drift’ over time Date: August 27, 2021 Source: Washington University in St. Louis Summary: New research reveals that neurons in the visual cortex -- the ...

In fact, the visual cortex can essentially make decisions just like the brain's traditional 'higher level' areas, finds a new study. Share: Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN Email.

Thus, only the visual cortex is vulnerable in a way that warrants internally-generated activity to preserve its territory. In humans, sleep is punctuated by rapid eye movement (REM) sleep every 90 ...

“The early visual cortex hasn’t previously been known to process auditory information, and while there is some anatomical evidence of interconnectedness in monkeys, our study is the first to ...