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With new grant, MIT neuroscientists will give 'invisible' cells a new look

February 08, 2018
… with neurons to process information astrocytes glia visual cortex synapse development Neurons are the star of the show … insight to discover that astrocyte activity in the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes vision, matched … will monitor astrocyte and neuron activity in the visual cortex as mice see different stimuli. They’ll also use …

Picower Research and Artificial Intelligence

… by Robots and Animals An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function   An Emergent Model of Orientation … mechanisms of visual working memory in the prefrontal cortex of the macaque Statistical issues in the analysis of … Trajectory Encoding in the Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex Experience-dependent asymmetric shape of hippocampal …

Studies help explain link between autism, severe infection during pregnancy

September 13, 2017
… inhibitory neurons autism spectrum disorders cortex proprioception … other. In this image: An irregularity in the somatosensory cortex, called a “patch,” can be seen as a cluster of blue in … the researchers call “patches” in certain parts of the cortex. In one of the new papers, the researchers set out to …

‘Rewiring’ cortical circuits

… such “monocular deprivation” can cause the visual cortex to rewire connections serving the occluded eye to … In 2010 they found that synaptic changes in the visual cortex following dark-rearing and then light exposure … after being reared in the dark, neurons in the visual cortex dramatically increased production of a microRNA called …

The Sleeping Brain

September 14, 2023
… chemical acetylcholine in the brain’s outer surface, or cortex, the brain exhibits relatively high-frequency, … have shown that the hippocampus communicates with the cortex during sleep as it replays representations of … the peaks or “up states” of slow waves, the prefrontal cortex (the locus of reasoning and executive function) …

Visual Recognition Memory

… of Picower Professor Mark Bear have shown that the visual cortex is not just sorting out shapes, colors and motion, but … was trying to assay visual responses in the visual cortex of mice (V1) when he observed something surprising. … mouse brain section shows green highlighting in the visual cortex In a paper in 2015, the lab showed how SRP reveals the …
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