By activating the visual cortex electrically, those modules generate simple spots or patterns of light that the brain can try ...
When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...
Our brains begin to create internal representations of the world around us from the first moment we open our eyes. We perceptually assemble components of scenes into recognizable objects thanks to ...
An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...
In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...
Tracking neurons as learning unfolds The researchers tracked the activity of the same small networks of neurons in the visual cortex over several weeks as subjects learned to tell apart different ...
A new breakthrough technology, co-developed by UCL scientists, that simultaneously records and manipulates neuron activity ...
A team has scaled up the powerful brain-mapping tool BARseq. The technology is now capable of mapping millions of neurons throughout the brain. Identifying how neural connections are wired up over ...