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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·May 1, 2020·5 min read

Seeing is Conceiving

Visually represented information is a functional part of conceptual knowledge. The extend of the visual representations is influenced by visual experience.

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·November 11, 2015·4 min read

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You: Why We Look at Pretty Faces

A new study reports our brains may reward us for looking at pretty faces.

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·November 19, 2015·4 min read

Deciphering the Role of Brain Layers

A new study sheds light on the role of layers in the brain.

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·September 28, 2023·6 min read

Mapping Early Visual System in Wasps Provides AI and Neural Insights

Neuroscientists have achieved a groundbreaking feat by mapping the early visual system of a parasitic wasp, smaller than a grain of salt. Utilizing advanced imaging technologies, they reconstructed the entire system at the synaptic level, a first for any animal.

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·January 28, 2019·5 min read

Tiny Eye Movements Affect How We See Contrast

Contrast sensitivity may be a result of small eye movements people may not be aware they are making, a new study reports.

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·June 25, 2018·5 min read

Inability to Recognize Faces Linked to Broader Visual Recognition Problems

Researchers report developmental prosopagnosia, or face blindness, occurs as the results of neurobiological problems that broadly affect visual recognition.

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·February 23, 2016·5 min read

How We Keep Track of What Matters

According to a new study, the visual system keeps track of relevant object while eye movements are made.

This image shows the brain of a fruit fly.

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·June 25, 2015·8 min read

Three Rules Could Explain How the Visual System of the Fruit Fly Self Organizes as it Grows

Three simple, pre-programmed rules appear to help create the neural circuit connecting the fly's eye to its brain.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·October 5, 2015·6 min read

IT Looks Familiar: How The Brain Recognizes Objects

A new study provides evidence that the inferior temporal cortex can identify objects.

This is a 3-D reconstructed image of the Drosophila optic ganglion where photoreceptor axons.

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·April 17, 2015·5 min read

New Study Shed Light on Adaptability of Nerve Cells

A new study reports neurons in the eye alter on a molecular level when they are exposed to light for prolonged periods of time.

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·April 16, 2018·7 min read

Hidden Structure of Enigmatic Backwards Neural Connections Discovered

Study may provide key insights into the visual system and perception.

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·November 18, 2016·6 min read

Ducklings Maintain Two Separate Memory Banks of Visual Information

Researchers report newly hatched ducklings that are shown a substitute mother object with only one eye do not recognize it when they have only the other eye available.

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visual system

Seeing is Conceiving

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You: Why We Look at Pretty Faces

Deciphering the Role of Brain Layers

Mapping Early Visual System in Wasps Provides AI and Neural Insights

Tiny Eye Movements Affect How We See Contrast

Inability to Recognize Faces Linked to Broader Visual Recognition Problems

How We Keep Track of What Matters

Three Rules Could Explain How the Visual System of the Fruit Fly Self Organizes as it Grows

IT Looks Familiar: How The Brain Recognizes Objects

New Study Shed Light on Adaptability of Nerve Cells

Hidden Structure of Enigmatic Backwards Neural Connections Discovered

Ducklings Maintain Two Separate Memory Banks of Visual Information

Music Preferences Mirror Moral Values

Tinnitus Linked to Auditory Nerve Loss

Enhanced TMS Shows Promise as Depression Treatment

Heartbeat’s Influence on Brain Activity

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