By activating the visual cortex electrically, those modules generate simple spots or patterns of light that the brain can try ...
People who pull an all-nighter or work back-to-back overnight shifts lose more than alertness. A growing body of primary ...
An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...
When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...
A recent study conducted by researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) reveals insights into the functioning of the visual cortex of macaques. The findings, published in Cell Reports, ...
During the development of mice, sensory experiences such as vision, touch and hearing play crucial roles in shaping and maturing neural circuits. The period when visual experience has the most ...
An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen, and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...
High-level visual cortex contains category-selective areas embedded within larger-scale topographic maps like animacy and real-world size. Here, we propose action as a key organizing factor shaping ...
Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...