News tagged with visual cortex
Mouse brains keyed to speed
(Medical Xpress) -- It’s hard to be a mouse. You’re a social animal, but your fellows are small and scattered. You’re a snack to a bestiary of fast, eagle-eyed predators, not least the eagle. ...
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Brain study explores what makes colors and numbers collide
Someone with the condition known as grapheme-color synesthesia might experience the number 2 in turquoise or the letter S in magenta. Now, researchers reporting their findings online in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on Nov ...
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Nov 17, 2011 |
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Attention and awareness uncoupled in brain imaging experiments
In everyday life, attention and awareness appear tightly interwoven. Attending to the scissors on the right side of your desk, you become aware of their attributes, for example the red handles. Vice versa, ...
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Nov 10, 2011 |
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Now see this: Anti-inflammatory treatment reverses stroke-induced compromise in sensory learning
(Medical Xpress) -- One of the many potential consequences of ischemic stroke – a lesion, or localized pathological change in the brain, in which blood flow insufficient to meet metabolic demand leads ...
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Sep 22, 2011 |
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Development of the brain’s visual cortex depends on experience with light
Tiny molecular signals that govern how the connections between brain cells mature when the eyes first see light have now been identified by a research team in MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Department ...
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Sep 08, 2011 |
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Chronic exposure to methyl-mercury increases of neurodegenerative disease
The research team led by Prof. Samuel Lo, Associate Head of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, recently discovered that chronic exposure to low-dose methyl-mercury, an environmental ...
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Scientists make brain signal discovery
(Medical Xpress) -- A Murdoch University scientist is closer to understanding why early brain development is so critical to mental health and function in the long term.
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Jul 06, 2011 |
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A bird and a plane -- NYU receives grant to develop crow-sized autonomous plane
New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences has received a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop a bird-sized, self-flying plane that could navigate through both forests and urban ...
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Mapping the brain: New technique poised to untangle the complexity of the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have moved a step closer to being able to develop a computer model of the brain after developing a technique to map both the connections and functions of nerve cells in the brain ...
Apr 10, 2011 |
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NeuroImage: Multiplexing in the visual brain
Imagine sitting in a train at the railway station looking outside: Without analyzing the relative motion of object contours across many different locations at the same time, it is often difficult to decide ...
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Mar 24, 2011 |
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Neuropsychologist proves that some blind people 'see' with their ears
Dr. Olivier Collignon of the University of Montreal's Saint-Justine Hospital Research Centre compared the brain activity of people who can see and people who were born blind, and discovered that the part of the brain that ...
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Mar 16, 2011 |
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Parts of brain can switch functions: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The ...
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Feb 28, 2011 |
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The blind also have a Stripe of Gennari
Nerve bundles in the visual cortex of the brain in blind people may process the sense of touch.
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Feb 22, 2011 |
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Brain's visual circuits do error correction on the fly
(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain's visual neurons continually develop predictions of what they will perceive and then correct erroneous assumptions as they take in additional external information, according to new ...
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Dec 07, 2010 |
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How the brain's architecture makes our view of the world unique
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wellcome Trust scientists have shown for the first time that exactly how we see our environment depends on the size of the visual part of our brain.
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Dec 05, 2010 |
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Visual cortex
The term visual cortex refers to the primary visual cortex (also known as striate cortex or V1) and extrastriate visual cortical areas such as V2, V3, V4, and V5. The primary visual cortex is anatomically equivalent to Brodmann area 17, or BA17.
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