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·July 18, 2017·6 min read

Blueprint For Adult Visual System Present at Birth

A new study from Harvard researchers reveals that in primates, the blueprint for adult visual organization is in place a few days after birth and 'fills in' with experience. Researchers believe that, as the organization is present so early on in life, it is likely present before birth as a genetically programmed mechanism, and later modified due to experience.

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·July 26, 2019·4 min read

A computer that understands how you feel

EmoNet, a new convolutional neural network, can accurately decode images into eleven distinct emotional categories. Training the AI on over 25,000 images, researchers demonstrate image content is sufficient to predict the category and valence of human emotions.

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·April 4, 2016·5 min read

Think Small: Diminishing Returns in Neuroscience

Researchers are investigating what makes a brain efficient and how that affects insect behavior.

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·June 14, 2017·5 min read

How Detecting Social Signals May Have Affected How We See Colors

A new study reports the photoreceptors in our eyes allow us to detect socially significant color variations better than other types of color vision.

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·September 30, 2016·3 min read

New Optical Illusion Throws Light on Brain’s Perception of Transparency

A new study reports researchers have created a new optical illusion which helps to reveal how our brains determine the material properties of an object.

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·March 19, 2019·3 min read

How Attention Helps the Brain Perceive an Object

Low-frequency optogenetic stimulation of the visual region of the brain impairs an animal's ability to make fine sensory discriminations.

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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.

This shows CT1 cells in a fly's visual system

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·April 28, 2019·4 min read

Multitasking with perfection: Nerve cell works like 1400 individual cells – Fly Study

CT1 cells connect around 1400 areas in the fly brain. Each cell area works like a separate neuron, allowing CT1 to access information from the fly's eye and support local motion detection.

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·July 8, 2016·5 min read

Sparking Sharper Sight: Mild Electrical Current May Improve Vision

A new study reveals stimulating the visual cortex for 20 minutes with a mild electrical current can improve vision for 2 hours.

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·January 18, 2019·6 min read

Synaptic Logic for Connections Between Two Brain Hemispheres Discovered

Researchers have developed a new technique that helps identify the functional properties of individual synapses that link the two hemispheres of the brain.

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·October 4, 2016·4 min read

Developing Brain Regions in Children Hardest Hit by Sleep Deprivation

Researchers report sleep deprivation affects the parietal and occipital lobes in children, along with myelin levels in the visual system.

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·October 24, 2018·4 min read

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

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.

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visual system

Blueprint For Adult Visual System Present at Birth

A computer that understands how you feel

Think Small: Diminishing Returns in Neuroscience

New Optical Illusion Throws Light on Brain’s Perception of Transparency

How Attention Helps the Brain Perceive an Object

Inability to Recognize Faces Linked to Broader Visual Recognition Problems

Multitasking with perfection: Nerve cell works like 1400 individual cells – Fly Study

Sparking Sharper Sight: Mild Electrical Current May Improve Vision

Synaptic Logic for Connections Between Two Brain Hemispheres Discovered

Developing Brain Regions in Children Hardest Hit by Sleep Deprivation

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

Rising Temperatures Show Climate’s Hidden Impact on Substance Use

ChatGPT’s Choices: Overload or Overjoyed? Decoding Decision Dynamics

Worms Illuminate Ancient Emotional Mechanisms

Probing E-Cig and Alcohol’s Joint Assault on the Blood-Brain Barrier

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