Science news articles about 'visual neurons'

... see in the world around them. A type of visual neuron known as simple cells can detect ... scientists to develop new ways of investigating the visual system and other brain areas. "It's still a theory, ...

... isolate and study the function of one or few of the several mechanisms shaping the responses of visual neurons,” wrote the researchers. “Ultimately, however, we need to understand how neurons respond ...

... now changing the game. On Saturday, Los Alamos researchers used PetaVision to model more than a billion visual neurons surpassing the scale of 1 quadrillion computations a second (a petaflop/s). On ...

... visual scene in a single glimpse," says John H. Reynolds, Ph.D., an associate professor ... researchers measured the activity of a large population of visual neurons in animals trained to play a simple ...