In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that processes visual information from the eyes.

In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that processes visual information from the eyes.

Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine began by using specialized microscopes to record the brain activity from a one cubic millimeter portion of a mouse's visual cortex as the animal watched ...

In a ground breaking achievement, researchers from Harvard University and Google have created the most detailed wiring diagram of the human brain ever constructed. This remarkable project began ...

In fact, the human brain's visual system actively reshapes how it represents the exact same object depending on what you're trying to do.

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain’s visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

Jeff Lichtman, a professor in molecular and cellular biology at Harvard, explains that researchers in his lab, led by Alex Shapson-Coe, created the brain map by taking subcellular pictures of the ...

Our brain interprets visual information by combining what we see with what we already know. A study published in the journal Neuron by researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation, and supported by ...

Researchers mapped all 139,255 neurons in the brain of an adult fruit fly, which are linked by more than 50 million synapses. Tyler Sloan for FlyWire, Princeton University, (Dorkenwald, S. et al ...