Researcher Discovers Brain Cells Have "Memory"
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 16:35
in Psychology & Sociology
As we look at the world around us, images flicker into our brains like disparate pixels on a computer screen that change several times a second. Yet we don't perceive the world as a constantly flashing computer display. Why not? Neuroscientists at The Johns Hopkins University think that part of the answer lies in a special region of the brain's visual cortex which is in charge of distinguishing between background and foreground images.
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