Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now shown for the first time in an animal model that they enhance and temporarily
store sensory information.
Through conscious decisions that exert themselves in the «top» regions in the front of the brain, he explains, we can control how much we pay attention to the sights flooding into the «bottom» region, the visual association cortex, which
stores this sensory information.
«Sensory function: Thalamus enhances,
stores sensory information: Important brain network for processing sensory perceptions elucidated.»
Not exact matches
Halassa says these results demonstrate how the prefrontal cortex is essential to performing such behavioral tasks and how this part of the brain «
stores the knowledge ultimately communicated to the TRN to control how much visual or auditory
sensory information is suppressed or not, and how the brain ultimately multitasks.»