Sentences with phrase «visual centers of the brain»

If mRGCs are involved in mouse vision, the researchers posited that light would produce activity in the visual centers of the brain in mice that lack rods and cones.

The pattern of RGC loss in patients as well as information obtained from laboratory research all point to the fact that an important site of pathology occurs at the optic nerve head, a region where the axonal cell processes of RGCs exit the eye on their way to the visual centers of the brain.

Photons — or units of light — hit the retinas of your eyes and send the images of the rushing players to the visual centers of your brain, where the players» actions are analyzed and patters of movement are detected.

Not exact matches

«About 50 percent of the brain's pathways are tied in some to way to vision and visual processing,» said Dr. Steven Galetta, chairman of neurology at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center and senior author of the study, which was published in The Journal of Neuro - Ophthalmology.

Learning disabilities in basic reading likely involve difficulty with language processing and visual reasoning centers of the brain.

Although the role of the visual cortex and other areas of the brain are being identified, and their functions clarified, it is not likely that there is a «truth» center in the brain or a «lying» center.

Notre Dame Associate Professor of Psychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, conducted the research at Notre Dame with Adam Biggs, currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State University.

The visual and coordination centers of the brain were more active in men.

The tactile signals processed in the somatosensory centers of the brain may actually send feedback all the way to the very early stages of visual processing instead of being merely combined at some higher level.

In both cases, the prefrontal cortex — the control center for most cognitive functions — appears to take charge of the brain's attention and control relevant parts of the visual cortex, which receives sensory input.

Therefore, Tadin explained, you have a better chance of hitting a curveball by realizing that our brains, like GPS, can lead us to «see» changes in speed or direction that don't actually occur when the ball moves from the center of our visual field to the periphery.

«By the time the information gets to the visual cortex, we think the brain is representing it as a sparse code,» said Bruno Olshausen, a computational neuroscientist and director of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of California - Berkeley, who helped develop the theory of sparse coding.

«Though the «blind brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Cabrain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - CaBrain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada.

Now a team of scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has shed light on how the needs of the body affect the way the brain processes visual food cues.

By selecting for traits that helped animals avoid them, snakes ultimately endowed us with forward - facing eyes, for example, and enlarged visual centers deep in our brains that are specialized for picking out specific features in the world around us, such as the general shape of a snake's body camouflaged among leaves.

Researchers once believed that the experience of having an unbroken view was entirely created by the brain sending a copy of the eye movement command signals originating in the frontal lobes to the visual centers.

In some cases the flow of information goes from the bottom up, as signals from the visual cortex and the emotional centers move to the higher regions of the brain.

«Where the eyes go and how much visual information gets in seems to be telling us a lot about what's going on inside the brain,» said Michael Platt, director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscibrain,» said Michael Platt, director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive NeurosciBrain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

But the preference of visual perception for the center of our visual field is also represented in the brain: it is mirrored in those brain structures that process stimuli transmitted from the fovea.

The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images, according to a Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim Wcenter of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images, according to a Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim WCenter for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim Wallen.

That is the simple story, but the picture got more complicated when a student (Ramachandran) from India found that in some circumstances form perception preceded stereo, showing the flexibility of the brain's visual centers.

They've linked cameras to electrodes implanted in the visual centers of blind people's brains.

Center investigators in psychology include Randolph Blake, who uses behavioral and brain - imaging techniques to study the neural bases of human visual perception, with an emphasis on binocular vision and motion perception.

The team measured the pupils» response to light and examined the brains» visual response centers to show that signals from the eye were going to the appropriate areas of the brain.

Researcher Vilayanur Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of San Diego, says most engaging designs adhere to certain «laws of art» that titillate the visual areas of the bBrain and Cognition at the University of San Diego, says most engaging designs adhere to certain «laws of art» that titillate the visual areas of the brainbrain.

People with chromesthesia are said to receive a double «whack» of input to color perception centers of the brain, from both visual and auditory stimuli.

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