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… September 8, 2021 Behind the scenes, brain circuit ensures vision remains reliable As mice watched movies, scientists watched their brains to see how vision could be represented reliably. The answer is that … circuit of inhibitory neurons When it comes to processing vision, the brain is full of noise. Information moves from …

… 10, 2018 Research Findings As brain extracts meaning from vision, study tracks progression of processing Here’s the … cognition , cognitive neuroscience , cognitive control , vision Print Share Related Articles Brain networks encoding …

… Beckman Foundation Names Mark Bear as 2018 Beckman-Argyros Vision Research Award Winner The Arnold and Mabel Beckman … Foundation today announced its 2018 Beckman-Argyros Vision Research Award winner is Dr. Mark Bear , Picower … to make significant, transformative breakthroughs in vision research; particularly through the development of an …

… patch therapy fails Amblyopia is the most common cause of vision loss in children, according to the U.S. National Eye … a cataract in one eye. Even after the cataract is removed, vision through the affected eye is impaired because of a … the retina of the good eye, they could lastingly improve vision in the amblyopic one even after the critical period in …

… treatment for the disorder, the most common cause of lost vision starting in childhood, affecting millions around the … period. Amblyopia emerges early in development when vision in one eye is impaired, for instance by a cataract or … eye. This treatment can help, but often only restores vision partially and becomes ineffective after about age 8. …

… amblyopia , a disorder where children born with disrupted vision in one eye can lose visual acuity there permanently … 4 neurons are indeed necessary for the degradation of vision in a deprived eye, they apparently play no role in how … of the same stimulus, and would prevent the degradation of vision in a deprived eye as well as the commensurate …

… in understanding the especially complex development of vision. Humans have 35 or so distinct functional regions that contribute to processing vision, Sur notes, and even mice have 10. “There is something profound in the way that vision is represented and created in mammalian brains,” Sur …

… of the target in the new position in the mouse’s vision, this caused the neuron to strengthen a particular … , optogenetics , visual cortex , visual system , vision , monocular deprivation Print Share Related Articles …

… words, animals seeing a banana in the left side of their vision recruited a different neural ensemble to represent … Medical Sciences funded the research. Research Article vision , prefrontal cortex , working memory Print Share In …

… research. Research Article hippocampus , visual cortex , vision , explicit learning , implicit learning Print Share In … have invested decades in piecing together how our vision is so good at recognizing what’s familiar. A new study …