Topic: visual cortex
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Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts - Here's How
Columbia University researchers, led by Rafael Yuste, decoded the neural code of mice's visual cortex by training them to associate vertical and horizontal bar patterns with rewards, mapping the exact neurons firing for each stimulus. Using holographic lasers to activate those same neurons, they ...
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How Your Brain Sees What Isn't There
Our brains actively construct visual reality through illusory contours, a phenomenon where we perceive shapes and edges that don't physically exist, revealing neural circuitry's role beyond passive recording. Recent research identified specialized neurons called IC-encoders in the visual cortex t...
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