When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For decades, scientists have hypothesized that one of these pathways ...

The same is about to happen in the field of connectomics, as a Janelia and Google project has just released the beginnings of a neuron-level wiring diagram for a fruit fly brain. Many ...

FlyWire presents a neuronal wiring diagram of the whole fly brain ... the neurons that make up the anterior visual pathway in the Drosophila brain, providing insight into how visual features ...

Together, both studies represent a major step toward creating a detailed "functional-anatomical map" of the brain's visual system. "Understanding these pathways and mechanisms allows us to predict ...

In this sense, it is one of the most dramatic illustrations of the consequences of damage to the brain’s visual system. The pathway from eye to brain begins in the retina, where light is ...

For more than a century researchers have assumed that the brain must keep track of the impulses that cause these tiny motions, so as to subtract their effect from our visual awareness. Now ...