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 ...
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MIT discovers 30% of your brain’s synapses are 'silent' — dormant connections that sit waiting until you need to learn something new
Your brain is carrying a massive reserve of wiring it has never switched on. Researchers at MIT have found that roughly 30 ...
Researchers used a blood protein wash to render brain tissue transparent down to 700 µm, witnessing live-firing activity ...
The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies reveal. By Emily Anthes Over the last century, scientists have mapped several ...
Implanting a device into the deep temporal cortex of a mouse without damaging the brain has long been a major challenge in ...
Researchers are tracing the brain and body’s response to aesthetic expression in search of a scientific value to art ...
MIT neuroscientists have uncovered a surprising secret hidden in the adult brain: millions of “silent synapses,” dormant ...
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The brain’s sensory cortex uses a Voronoi diagram to organize touch signals — the same math cities use to design water networks
When a mouse sweeps a single whisker across a textured surface, a tight cluster of neurons in its brain lights up within ...
Scientists trained mice to experience placebo pain relief, then traced the effect to a brain circuit that releases the body’s ...
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