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Does the human brain work in the same way when it is at rest as when it is being stimulated? In a paper published in “NeuroImage”, Nicolas Gravel and co-authors report that it does. They find that a new method … Continued

Did you know that your brain is able to read “bar-codes”? In a recently published paper in NeuroImage, Funda Yildirim and colleagues proved this point by mapping the visual cortex purely based on differences in the orientation of small stimulus components.  … Continued

Who would have guessed that the amygdala – a nucleus in the mid-brain generally associated with emotions like fear – also become active when you walk into a museum? In this paper, which appeared in a special research topic on … Continued

Does losing an eye change your brain? In a paper published in “Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS)”, Doety Prins and co-authors report that it does. Importantly, it results in degeneration that is specific to brain regions involved in depth … Continued

Our world is filled with texture. For the human visual system, this is an important source of information for assessing environmental and material properties. But can we also predict – what seem to be very personal – aesthetic judgments such … Continued

Is glaucoma only an eye disease or is the brain also involved? In a paper published in a special issue on “Imaging the visual system: from the eye to the brain” of the journal “Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics”, Joyce Boucard, … Continued

Why do we look were we look? A single red poppy flower in a green field will usually attract your attention, but probably not when you are spotting birds or insects. Your brain simply won’t give it a high enough “priority” in … Continued

Does having an eye disease affect the organization of one’s visual brain? In this paper in Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, Haak et al. used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure activity in the visual brains of patients with the eye … Continued

Does having an eye disease also affects one’s brain? In this paper in PlosOne, Prins et al. examined MRI scans of patients with the eye disease macular degeneration to find indications for neural degeneration in the visual cortex. This is important to … Continued

How does the brain accomplish object recognition? In this study that appeared in Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, Barbara Nordhjem and colleagues demonstrate that lateral sections of the ventral visual cortex interact during the recognition of images that were slowly revealed from noise, indicating both are … Continued