… (MD) experiments, neuroscientists temporarily obscure visual input to one eye of a developing animal, causing a … vision loss disorder amblyopia. Above: Weak input to the visualcortex from an occluded eye (green) will lead to a shift in …
… as demonstrated by ocular dominance plasticity in visualcortex. This plasticity occurs only during early life, and … to test this idea. We asked whether we could use our visualcortex paradigm to ask is there prolonged plasticity …
… follows a progression through many regions of the cortex, and not exactly in the way many neuroscientists would … lateral intraparietal (LIP), frontal eye fields (FEF), and visual areas MT and V4. The team analyzed the data, tracking … (i.e. as if considering many different details of the visual input), while categorization activity involved much …
… arbitrary world it encounters – ranging from tuning its visual perception in the early months to getting an A in … weaken the eye’s connections to the brain just as their visual circuitry was still developing. Such “monocular … neural circuits in a region called the posterior parietal cortex where the brain converts vision into action. There, …
… Dept. of Biol., MIT, Cambridge, MA Session P824 Prefrontal Cortex 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Presentation P824.05 Layer-specific … Protein synthesis-dependent hyperexcitability of Fmr1-KO visualcortex layer 5 pyramidal cells offers path to identify … Inst. for Brain Res., MIT, Cambridge, MA Session P477 Visual Plasticity in Humans and Disease Models 10:00 AM - …
… rhythms, or brain waves, play a central role in how the cortex processes information and gives us volitional control … the role of these rhythms in executive control of visual attention. But Miller has since shown a similar … Brain rhythms sculpt the flow of information across the cortex. Here we see that the peak frequency of beta rhythms …
… series of tests of MVP in a well-understood region in the visualcortex, where the brain processes sight from both eyes. … shutting one eye for a week. Normally, responses in visualcortex neurons related to the closed eye become …