FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·April 9, 2020·5 min readMisfiring from jittery neurons sets fundamental limit on perceptionStudy provides new evidence supporting the theory that perceptual limitations are caused by a correlated noise in neural activity.Read More
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FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·January 17, 2020·4 min readReward improves visual perceptual learning, but only after people sleepReward does not improve visual perception learning unless it is followed by a good night's sleep.Read More
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FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·October 23, 2019·3 min readWhy, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually SawCrashes in visual processing occur when neurons processing one image are tasked with processing another too quickly. This results in either one or both images being unable to reach our conscious awareness.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·October 15, 2019·3 min readHappy, angry or neutral expressions? Eyes react just as fastThe initial reaction of the brain is independent of the facial emotional expression we see. It is only after the eye movement is completed that the brain shows strong responses to the emotional expression of a face.Read More
ElectrophysiologyFeaturedNeuroscience·October 7, 2019·5 min readBrain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processingCriticality in the brain was linked to inhibitory neurons imposing and organizing the computational dynamics.Read More
