When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

Vision is one of the most complex functions of our brain and requires a seamless interaction between many different brain structures to decode shapes, colours, depths, and movements and turn them into ...

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 ...

The smallest control system of vision in mammals has been mapped -- a discovery that opens entirely new insights into how our vision works and how it can be affected by disease.

Researchers mapped 84,000 neurons in a mouse brain after it watched video clips. The 3D map links structure and activity.

An international team has reconstructed, with unprecedented precision, the architecture and functioning of tens of thousands ...

The researchers verified these predictions against high-resolution, electron microscope imaging of that mouse's visual cortex ...

Back in late March 2021, Aird and Loch Ness councillor David Fraser was approached by pupils from Cannich Bridge Primary who had rallied classmates to draw pictures of what they would like to see in ...

Applying mild electrical stimulation to the cortex, they revealed that the control of certain body parts was localized to particular brain regions—a hotly debated topic at the time. “There had been a ...