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Category: Neuroscience
A temporal illusion in which an effect is perceived after its cause reveals details of how visual events enter conscious awareness
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Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from UCL report that seeing one's body while a painful stimulus is applied to it significantly reduces the experience of pain
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Category: Neuroscience
Muller cells function as fibre optic cables, transporting light through the retina
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Category: Neuroscience
MIT researchers show that touch modulates vision
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Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from Vanderbilt University have demonstrated that the contents of visual working memory can be accurately predicted by decoding neural activity in the visual cortex
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Category: Neuroscience
The Men's Final of the 1981 Wimbledon Tennis Championships is one of the most memorable events in sporting history. John McEnroe, who was playing against Bjorn Borg, famously challenged one of the referee's calls by throwing a tantrum, during which...
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Category: Vision
The pioneering experiments performed by Hubel and Weisel in the late 1950s and early 60s taught us much about the development of the visual system. We now know, for example, that neurons in the visual cortex are organized into alternating...
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Category: Art
Cataract 3, Bridget Riley, 1967. In the 1960s, the British artist Bridget Riley began to develop a distinctive style characterised by simple and repetitive geometric patterns which create vivid illusions of movement and sometimes colour and often have a...
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Category: Developmental Biology
The classic Nobel Prize-winning studies of David Hubel and Torsten Weisel showed how the proper maturation of the developing visual cortex is critically dependent upon visual information received from the eyes. In what would today be considered highly unethical experiments,...
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Category: Neuroscience
New research shows that a protein found in green algae can partially restore visual function when delivered into the retina of blind mice. The work brings us one step closer to a genetic therapy for various conditions in which the...
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