Most scientists agree that categorizing an object — like thinking of a carrot as either a root vegetable or a party snack — is the job of the prefrontal cortex ... Activity in the visual system — ...

This valuable study shows that locomotion-related modulations in the mouse visual cortex are not uniform but primarily affect neurons in muscarinic receptor-negative patches, which receive projections ...

according to the World Health Organization. In 2021, 21 million Americans experienced a bout of major depression; younger adults, ages 18 to 25, were the hardest hit, with nearly 1 in 5 affected.

Scientists have created the most detailed functional brain map to date by tracing connections between 84,000 neurons in a mouse's visual cortex. The research, which involved showing the mouse ...

WASHINGTON - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse’s cerebral cortex involved in vision, an ...

When your eyes send information to your visual cortex, your brain gets to work, assembling a version of reality based on contrasts, shapes, depth, and prior experience. But illusions? They disrupt ...

The research focused upon a part of this region called the primary visual cortex, involved in the first stage of the brain's processing of visual information. The research was conducted by the ...

This feature selectivity is thought to be modifiable by experience at the level of the cortex. Here, we demonstrate that selective exposure to a feature during development can alter the population ...

To evaluate baseline cortical excitability, participants underwent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the motor cortex while researchers recorded hand muscle responses using electromyography ...