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… 13, 2020 Research Feature Look and Learn: Studying the visual system Vision isn’t necessary for learning, memory, … one of four Picower Institute professors who’ve made the visual system integral to their work. In their studies they have probed a pivotal region, the primary visual cortex (V1), and related areas to make major contributions to …

… 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 lab …

… November 30, 2020 Research Findings Cortex over reflex: Study traces circuits where executive … specific circuits between the ACC and both the SC and the visual cortex (VC), the researchers could resolve uncertainty … saw it. Researchers traced circuits from the ACC to the visual cortex (VC). VC neurons labeled green trace back to …

… one crucial brain region called the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) plays an important role in converting vision … to act upon or even perceive objects on one side of their visual field. Their eyes and bodies are fine, but the brain … and showed that it contains a mix of neurons attuned to visual processing, decision-making and action. “This makes …

… familiar, different brain rhythms, neurons take over As ‘visual recognition memory’ emerges in visual cortex, one circuit of inhibitory neurons supplants …

… in a hierarchy of regions along its surface, or cortex, ranging from “lower” areas that do basic parsing of … an image they had just seen – a simple feat of visual working memory. As the animals played the game, the … middle and top of the task’s cortical hierarchy – the visual cortex, the parietal cortex and the prefrontal cortex. …

… When Alzheimer’s degrades cells that cross hemispheres, visual memory suffers New research reveals cells that span brain hemispheres to coordinate activity in visual processing centers and shows that Alzheimer’s degrades … work identified neurons that connect the primary visual cortex (V1) of each hemisphere and showed that when the cells …

… to recognize image sequences but not single sights The visual cortex stores and remembers individual images, but when they … sees shows that while individual images are stored in the visual cortex, the ability to recognize a sequence of sights …

… detailed mapping and modeling of thalamus inputs onto visual cortex neurons show brain leverages “wisdom of the crowd” to … their diversity is what underlies these advantages. The visual thalamus, represented by the eye, conveys information …

… By measuring thousands of neurons along the surface, or cortex, of the brain in animals as they reacted to … by that activity in five areas across the cortex, from visual areas in the back of the head to a parietal cortex in … saw that alpha/beta mostly peaked in deeper layers of the visual cortices, while gamma often was strongest in …