Neural pathway crucial to successful rapid object recognition in primates
The findings enrich existing models of the neural circuitry involved in visual perception and help to further unravel the ... MIT researchers have identified a brain pathway critical in enabling primates to effortlessly identify objects in their field ... The main goal of this study was to test how the back-and-forth information processing of this circuitry-that is, this recurrent ... MIT researchers have identified a brain pathway critical in enabling primates to effortlessly identify objects in their field ...
How to inhibit photoreceptor death? A new way to fight pigmentary retinopathy
In the paper, "Visual System Hyperexcitability and Compromised V1 Receptive Field Properties in Early-Stage Retinitis ... New tests of a recently approved RSV vaccine show potent antibody response to current and past variants. 6 hours ago ... More information: Henri Leinonen et al, Visual System Hyperexcitability and Compromised V1 Receptive Field Properties in Early- ... evoked visual potentials (VEP), and electrophysiology of single neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1). The mice were ...
Application of CRISPR-based rapid detection technology has potential to transform oral health
"I was working on saliva tests over 20 years ago. Our test worked in the sense that it could detect a specific pathogen from the ... The technology Forsyth is developing is a giant step for the field of oral medicine." More information: Jett Liu et al, Rapid ... a. Visual schematic of one-pot SHERLOCK (Appx Table 1). b. Workflow of the computational pipeline that generates crRnas and ... "The test is so sensitive it can detect as little as 10s of bacteria cells of a certain type from a sample that might contain ...
Real neurons are noisy. Can neural implants figure that out?
New tests of a recently approved RSV vaccine show potent antibody response to current and past variants. 1 hour ago ... The brains visual centers must be adept at filtering out the noise from the retinal cells to get to the true signal, and those ... Fields research in the retina shows these assumptions lead to even larger losses of information. "It helps to understand this ... Field said the researchers have yet to understand the structure of these noise correlations across the brain. "If the brain ...
Medical Xpress | Archive : 30/03/2013
Medical and health news service that features the most comprehensive coverage in the fields of neuroscience, cardiology, cancer ... The visual system as economist: Neural resource allocation in visual adaptation. (Medical Xpress)-It has long been held that in ... cancer screening strategies that maximize early detection of high-grade disease without excessive increases in initial testing ... visual adaptation should improve visual performance. However, evidence has contradicted this expectation: Adaptation sometimes ...