Researchers identify key rules for how visual cortex neurons organize thousands of synaptic inputs based on distance and clustering.

Even in the primary visual cortex, a brain region named for its specialized role in processing basic features of what the ...

As in larger brains, mouse visual cortex neurons with the same function cluster in columns. For over 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same ...

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

Neurons behind illusions: Researchers found IC-encoder neurons in the primary visual cortex that recreate illusory shapes based on feedback from higher brain areas. Old theories confirmed: A new study ...

Adapted from Ding Z, Tran DT et al., Nature Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1038/s41593-026-02213-3; licensed with CC BY 4.0 ...

Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon have for the first time managed to identify with an imaging technique ...