Neuroscientists identify how the brain works to select what we (want to) see
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 23:30
in Psychology & Sociology
If you are looking for a particular object -- say a yellow pencil -- on a cluttered desk, how does your brain work to visually locate it? For the first time, neuroscientists have identified how different neural regions communicate to determine what to visually pay attention to and what to ignore. This finding is a major discovery for visual cognition and will guide future research into visual and attention deficit disorders.