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… 13, 2020 Research Feature Look and Learn: Studying the visual system Vision isn’t necessary for learning, memory, cognition … one of four Picower Institute professors who’ve made the visual system integral to their work. In their studies they … Look and Learn: Studying the visual system CPG15 multiphoton microscopy LTD amblyopia …

… familiar, different brain rhythms, neurons take over As ‘visual recognition memory’ emerges in visual cortex, one circuit of inhibitory neurons supplants … for the study. Research Article visual cortex , visual system , inhibitory neurons , oscillations Print Share …

… December 13, 2019 Research Findings Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery In decades of studying how neural circuits in the brain’s visual cortex adapt to experience, MIT Professor Mark Bear ’s … the retina briefly reverts the activity of the visual system to that observed in early development and enables …

… at a frenzied pace during development to integrate visual signals from the two eyes. Scientists have long known that the brain’s visual system isn’t fully hardwired from the start—it becomes … rewiring builds binocular vision in the brain vision visual cortex visual system development synaptic plasticity …

… eye of animal models, neuroscientists restrengthened the visual response in the amblyopic eye, even at ages after the … to the U.S. National Eye Institute . It arises when visual experience is disrupted during infancy, for example by … Article amblyopia , visual cortex , vision , visual system Print Share In the media NPR: Pufferfish Toxin Holds …

… a simple, fundamental rule at the core of such a complex system as the brain, where 100 billion neurons each have … it were not. As they worked to activate plasticity in the visual cortex of mice and then track how synapses changed to … changing a neuron’s “receptive field,” or the patch of the visual field it responds to. Neurons receive input through …

… the first time that structural and functional coupling of visual areas in the mouse brain can be detected at … and myelin fibers are evident in each of six color coded visual processing regions in the cortex of a mouse. The … method could be used not only for studies of the visual system but also in regions all around the cortex. Moreover it …

… to recognize image sequences but not single sights The visual cortex stores and remembers individual images, but … sees shows that while individual images are stored in the visual cortex, the ability to recognize a sequence of sights … the retina briefly reverts the activity of the visual system to that observed in early development and enables …

… each time, but instead different groups of cells in the visual cortex can become stimulated by the same scenes. So … when images appear, thereby representing them in the visual cortex, activity among two types of “inhibitory” … vision , visual cortex , multiphoton microscopy , visual system , inhibitory neurons , inhibitory circuits Print Share …