New research reveals that neurons in the visual cortex are far more adaptable than previously thought, responding dynamically to complex stimuli during object recognition tasks.

Our brains begin to create internal representations of the world around us from the first moment we open our eyes. We ...

University of California, Davis researchers have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) that enables computer cursor ...

One cubic millimetre of a mammalian brain contains tens of thousands ... 200,000 cells and 523 million connections in the primary visual cortex and surrounding areas of a mouse.

A new study has created the first normative charts of brain functional development from birth to six years old, highlighting ...

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

In this paper, we present GPGrouper, a perceptual edge grouping model based on gestalt theory and the primary visual cortex (V1). Different from the existing methods, GPGrouper leverages the edge ...

In a landmark study published in Nature, researchers from the Allen Institute at the Baylor College of Medicine and Princeton ...

Correspondence to Dr Christopher J Kelly, Centre for the Developing Brain, School of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London, London SE1 7EH, UK; christopher.kelly{at}kcl.ac ...