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Room for thought: Brain region that watches for walls identified

Neuroscience NewsMay 13, 2019

MEG neuroimaging implicates the occipital place area (OPA) in our ability to rapidly sense our surroundings. The findings may advance improving machine learning and robotics technology aimed at mimicking visual processes in the human brain.... Read More...

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New study reshapes understanding of how the brain recovers from injury

Neuroscience NewsMarch 20, 2019

Retinal ganglion cell survival following a stroke depends on whether the pathway to the primary visual area remains active. Cells connected to inactive areas of the visual cortex suffer atrophy and degenerate, leading to permanent visual impairment.... Read More...

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Our Brains Reveal Our Choices Before We’re Even Aware of Them

Neuroscience NewsMarch 6, 2019

Researchers find neural activation patterns were predictive of the contents of voluntary visual imagery as far as 11 seconds before the choice of what to imagine. These results suggest that the contents of future visual imagery can be biased by current or prior neural representations.... Read More...

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Mice Pass On Brain Benefits of Enriched Upbringing to Offspring

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 21, 2019

Researchers report life experiences may be transgenerationally inherited through a combination of epigenetics and parental behavior. ... Read More...

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Surprise Discovery Reveals Second Visual System in Cerebral Cortex: Mouse Study

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 3, 2019

A new study challenges 75 year old dogma of mammalian vision. Researchers have shows the post rhinal cortex obtains visual data from the superior colliculus and is not dependent upon information from primary visual cortex. ... Read More...

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Neurons that Fire Together, Don’t Always Wire Together

Neuroscience NewsNovember 8, 2018

Researchers have identified a new rule of connectivity for neurons in the neocortex, contradicting the popular belief "neurons that fire together, wire together".... Read More...

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To See What’s Right in Front of You, Your Brain May Need Some Rewiring

Neuroscience NewsOctober 24, 2018

Researchers provide new evidence of brain plasticity. A new study reveals visual cortex neurons sprout new axons and shed some old ones as animals improve at perceptual learning tasks.... Read More...

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Neurons Reliably Respond to Straight Lines

Neuroscience NewsOctober 23, 2018

Researchers report single neurons in the primary visual cortex can reliably detect straight lines, even though the makeup of the cell is constantly changing. ... Read More...

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