Brain 4D imaging technique drives AI audiovisual analysis
When a person's hearing and vision are uncompromised and function at a relatively high level, the human brain is able to take ...
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Comparative fMRI reveals differences in the functional organization of the visual cortex for animacy perception in dogs and humans
The animate-inanimate category distinction is one of the general organizing principles in the primate high-level visual cortex. Much less is known about the visual cortical representations of animacy ...
First word problems: A new book explores the ancient history of the spoken word
Writing goes back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology and archaeology ...
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Unique ‘Fingerprints’ Like Patterns Develop In Brains Of People Who Are Born Blind: Study
In people who are born blind, their primary visual cortex which is the brain’s region that processes visual information develops unique patterns different from those in people with sight, said ...
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Brain scans reveal how repeated exposure to emotional events shapes memory
Why do some memories, especially those tied to strong emotions, feel so much more vivid and persistent? A recent study ...
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Visual-spatial processing impairment in the occipital-frontal connectivity network at early stages of Alzheimer’s disease
The control group presented marked occipital activity in the beta band (15–20 Hz) at early visual processing time. The eAD group showed a reduction in beta band functional connectivity in the ...
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How men’s daily hormone cycle is linked to brain shrinking from morning to night
Two regions of the cortex, known as the occipital and parietal cortices, shrank the most ... Interestingly, brain regions that process visual information cropped up in both studies, Murata noted.
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Rapid and cumulative adult plasticity in the mouse visual cortex
In the adult visual system, this plasticity can be elicited by repeated sensory stimuli; however, its temporal dynamics and underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we investigated the regulation ...