Human echolocation repurposes parts of the brain’s visual cortex for sound, even in sighted people. Skip to main content. Scientific American. October 24, 2024.

The study examines the development of visual representations in the ferret brain's visual cortex. Initially, cortical networks form through endogenous mechanisms before sensory experience.

How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal GPS.

Our findings challenge the traditional view that early sensory areas in the brain are simply "looking" or "recording" visual input. In fact, the human brain's visual system actively reshapes how ...

Information processing structures of the brain's visual cortex and artificial neural networks. In the actual brain's visual cortex, neurons are connected broadly and smoothly around a central ...

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 ...

Hubel and Wiesel initially demonstrated that, further along the visual pathway in the cortex, cells in a brain region called the geniculate nucleus also respond to spots of light. They wanted to build ...