People with aphantasia still have a blueprint for mental imagery, even if they can't consciously 'see' it.Research has revealed that the part of the ...

The striate cortex is the part of the visual cortex that is involved in processing visual information. The striate cortex is the first cortical visual area that receives input from the lateral ...

This important study conducted experiments to quantify how changes in blood flow results in apparent fluorescence changes when imaging neural activity sensors using two-photon microscopy. While the ...

“When it comes to understanding the human brain and disorders that can affect it, only other primates share our higher functions, such as a hierarchical visual cortex and a highly developed ...

"We developed high-spatial-resolution ultrahigh-field 7T functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) methods for functional mapping of the foveolar visual cortex in awake monkeys." To study how ...

People with aphantasia—individuals who report experiencing no visual imagery at all—also showed reduced activation of the ...

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We are visual animals. More than one fourth of our cerebral cortex is sensitive primarily to visual stimulation and the long research interest has made it the best-known cortical system. Lesions of ...

Its editor-in-chief is John Maunsell, a Boston-based neuroscientist specializing in the visual cortex. Volume 1 appeared in 1981 and issues appeared monthly; as its popularity grew it switched to ...

but the damage lies in the pathway which normally sends the information collected by the eye to the visual cortex. More recently, the term CVI has been used to stand for Cerebral Visual Impairment and ...