Neuroscience
In Vivo Visual Cortex Neuronal Activity
"Reid Lab Movies" of cat and rat visual cortex during visual stimulation, at: http://neuro.med.harvard.edu/site/reidweb/movies.html
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Early Visual Areas Of The Brain May Have A Role In Memory
The traditional view is that perceptual information is processed in early sensory regions of the brain, such as primary visual cortex, before being passed on to memory systems subserved by "high-order" brain areas, such as the prefrontal and inferotemporal...
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Another Shock For Brain Imaging Research - The Signal Isn't Always Linked To Neuronal Activity
The brain imaging community is about to experience another shockwave, just days after the online leak of a paper that challenged many of the brain-behaviour correlations reported in respected social neuroscience journals. Now Yevgeniy Sirotin and Aniruddha...
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Are You Thinking What I Say You're Thinking?
The idea that your brain contains information that ‘you’ cannot access is, of course, not new – Freud wrote about that years ago; and neither is it an unfamiliar phenomenon in our everyday lives – how often do we struggle to find a word that we...
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I Am What I See
Schematic representation of the two streams of visual processing in human cerebral cortex (taken from Goodale & Westwood, 2004). There is no pattern, yet there is The configuration lies within --Single Gun Theory, I Am What I See How does the brain categorize...
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Penn Neurosurgery Welcomes Timothy H. Lucas Ii, Md, Phd
Timothy H. Lucas II, MD, PhD joins the Department of Neurosurgery as Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery. Dr. Lucas specializes in the surgical treatment of epilepsy and brain tumors, with particular emphasis on lesions near eloquent cortex,...
Neuroscience