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All Articles Tagged As: visual cortex

Old eyes can learn new tricks; findings offer hope for adults with 'lazy eye' (7/20/2008)

New evidence that the brain regions responsible for vision are capable of adapting in adults offers new hope for those with an untreated condition commonly known as lazy eye ...> Full Article


Study Seeks to Understand Link Between Visual Cues, Motor Skills (6/25/2008)

Because what you see often affects what you do, a research team thinks a better understanding of the neurological processes involved could lead to improved treatment for stroke and brain injuries. ...> Full Article


Sight Recovery After Blindness Offers New Insights on Brain Reorganization (5/18/2008)

Studies of the brains of blind persons whose sight was partially restored later in life have produced a compelling example of the brain's ability to adapt to new circumstances and rewire and reconfigure itself. ...> Full Article



Scientists Explore Brain's Reaction to Potent Hallucinogen (4/29/2008)

Scientists Explore Brain's Reaction to Potent HallucinogenIncreasingly popular recreational drug, salvia, shows rapid uptake, short duration in animals ...> Full Article


First empirical study demonstrating that populations of nerve cells adapt to changing images (3/17/2008)

Neuroscientists studying the mind's ability to process images have completed the first empirical study to demonstrate, using animal models, how populations of nerve cells in visual cortex adapt to changing images. Their findings could lead to sight-improving therapies for people following trauma or stroke. ...> Full Article


How believing can be seeing: study shows how context dictates what we believe we see (2/18/2008)

Scientists have found the link between what we expect to see, and what our brain tells us we actually saw. The study, published in this week's PLoS Journal of Computational Biology, reveals that the context surrounding what we see is all important - sometimes overriding the evidence gathered by our eyes and even causing us to imagine things which aren't really there. ...> Full Article


Painless migraines still pack a punch (2/10/2008)

Most migraine sufferers just want the aching to go away, but Baylor College of Medicine ophthalmologists say even "painless" migraines can still pack a punch. ...> Full Article


New study focuses on eye movement (1/25/2008)

New study focuses on eye movementA scientist has uncovered one of the "missing links" in understanding visual signals that determine where and why we move our eyes to focus on details in our environment. ...> Full Article


Study Identifies Where Thoughts Of Familiar Objects Occur Inside the Human Brain (1/4/2008)

Experts Trained Algorithm To Extract Patterns From Participants' Brain Activation Scans ...> Full Article


Twins study shows genetic basis for face and place recognition (12/19/2007)

New evidence suggests our brains are hardwired before birth to recognize faces and places. But in contrast, the neural circuitry we use to recognize words develops mainly as a result of experience. ...> Full Article

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