Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

A computational study of cat primary visual cortex shows that motion direction and temporal frequency are encoded in subtle, spatially distributed activity patterns rather than fixed cortical maps.

Nerve fibers (dark lines) from a higher visual area (A) grow into the primary visual cortex (B, green arrowheads) in the developing mouse brain, carrying “feedback” signals. UC Santa Cruz researchers ...

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex ...

In their commentary on Romanski et al.'s findings of (at least) two streams of auditory projections to the prefrontal cortex 1, Kaas and Hackett have suggested that this anatomica ...

A new study led by biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how the primary visual cortex establishes its complex long-range neural networks during early brain development. The ...