A new package of papers examines the largest map yet of mammalian brain tissue. The map shows one cubic millimeter worth of ...

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The visual system ... parts of the cerebral cortex. Navigation relies on detecting left versus right body asymmetries for gaze and course stability. A central three-layer optic flow-sensitive ...

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Consciousness is at the centre of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where precisely does this reside in the brain? That is a ...

Very crudely put, are they in the front of the cortex — the outermost layer of the brain — such as the prefrontal ... they are not critically involved in seeing, in conscious visual perception,” Koch ...

"Even at the first stages of object perception, the neurons are sensitive to much more complex visual stimuli than had previously been believed, and that capability is informed by feedback from higher ...

New research reveals that learning doesn't just alter brain activity — it physically rewires the connections between key ...

Scientists tested two major theories about consciousness. They found the back of the brain handles fine visual details.