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Prefrontal cortex reaches back into the brain to shape how other regions function

November 25, 2025

… Prefrontal cortex reaches back into the brain to shape how other regions … internal feelings. Internal states arousal motor cortex visual cortex … to the two downstream regions they studied, the primary visual cortex (VISp) and the primary motor cortex (MOp), to …

Visual Recognition Memory

… Visual Recognition Memory Discoveries Behind your eyes … the lab of Picower Professor Mark Bear have shown that the visual cortex is not just sorting out shapes, colors and motion, but …

Biology-based brain model matches animals in learning, enables new discovery

December 29, 2025

… on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, … For example, within the model’s version of the brain’s cortex, one primitive design has excitatory neurons that receive input from the visual system via synapse connections affected by the …

Look and Learn: Studying the visual system

March 13, 2020

… Look and Learn: Studying the visual system March 13, 2020 Research Feature Research on how … microscopy LTD amblyopia autism IGF1 Rett syndrome visual cortex visual system Vision isn’t necessary for …

Resolving a seeming contradiction, study advances understanding of visual recognition memory

September 27, 2023

… a seeming contradiction, study advances understanding of visual recognition memory September 27, 2023 Research … in data to reveal a new insight into how it works. vision visual cortex … that when animals viewed something familiar, neurons in cortex, or outer layer of their brain, would be less …

Executive control by multifunctional neurons in the prefrontal cortex

… control by multifunctional neurons in the prefrontal cortex Discoveries In 2001, Miller and his co-author Jonathan … -most cited paper in neuroscience) of how the prefrontal cortex (PFC) exerts “executive” control over brain function. … among images of cars and of animals, regardless of their visual similarities, so long as they fit the right criteria. …

Why visual stimulation may work against Alzheimer’s

May 07, 2019

… Why visual stimulation may work against Alzheimer’s May 7, 2019 … study on the effects of flickering light showed that visual stimulation at a frequency of 40 hertz (cycles per … brain waves known as gamma oscillations in the visual cortex. These brain waves are believed to contribute to …

Unique visual stimulation may be new treatment for Alzheimer’s

December 07, 2016

… Unique visual stimulation may be new treatment for Alzheimer’s … beta amyloid plaques seen in Alzheimer’s disease, in the visual cortex of mice. This treatment appears to work by inducing …

When Alzheimer’s degrades cells that cross hemispheres, visual memory suffers

August 19, 2022

… When Alzheimer’s degrades cells that cross hemispheres, visual memory suffers August 19, 2022 Research Findings New … that span brain hemispheres to coordinate activity in visual processing centers and shows that Alzheimer’s degrades … their structure and therefore their function visual cortex neurodegeneration synapse gamma …

Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery

December 13, 2019

… Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery … Research Findings Plasticity underlying amblyopia found in visual cortex layer 4 amblyopia LTD LTP visual cortex vision …