Representational Similarity Analysis: Expanding Our Field Of Vision About Vision

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 10:10 in Psychology & Sociology

When we open our eyes, visual information floods the brain and it interprets what we're seeing. Researchers recently non-invasively mapped this flow of information in the human brain by combining two existing technologies, which allowed them to identify both the location and timing of human brain activity. They scanned individuals' brains as they looked at different images and were able to pinpoint, to the millisecond, when the brain recognizes and categorizes an object, and where these processes occur.  When and where read more

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