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 ...

Even mild head injuries can mean serious consequences for brain function at its most basic level. Research published in Communications Biology shows that neuroplasticity, too, has its limits. Injuries ...

A computational study of cat primary visual cortex shows that motion direction and temporal frequency are encoded in subtle, ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology demonstrates that a much older structure, the superior colliculus, contains the ...

The size of our primary visual cortex and the amount of brain tissue we have dedicated to processing visual information can predict how well we can see, a new study shows. The study in the journal ...

Just as cartographers have created manageable maps of our planet and enabled travel and development, our brain maps our diverse sensory inputs to our credit-card sized cerebral cortex to enable ...

A team of engineers and neuroscientists has demonstrated for the first time that human brain organoids implanted in mice have established functional connectivity to the animals' cortex and responded ...

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 ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Madison Wilson, a PhD student at UC San Diego ...