The formation of the retinotopic map depends on the action of axon guidance molecules, activity-dependent mechanisms and axonal competition. However, little is known about the plasticity potential of ...

(Medical Xpress) -- Remarkably, cortical maps show that neurons in the primary visual cortex have specific preferences for the location and orientation of a given visual field stimulus – but how these ...

Mapping the visual cortex First, brain cells make literal maps of visual information called retinotopic maps. These maps are slightly deformed, just as a world map is never a perfect representation of ...

Understanding brain function requires repeatable measurements of neural activity across multiple scales and multiple brain areas. In mice, large scale cortical neural activity evokes hemodynamic ...

The human visual brain devotes most of its neuronal resources to process the part of the visual scene that we see with both eyes. To achieve this goal, afferents from the two eyes representing the ...

Monkey brain scans have revealed new information about the part of the brain that processes visual information. Monkey brain scans have revealed new information about the part of the brain that ...

Monkey brain scans have revealed new information about the part of the brain that processes visual information. The findings were recently presented in PNAS by neurophysiologists Qi Zhu (KU Leuven) ...