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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Object recognition in the brain is shaped by prior experience, with neurons in the ventral visual pathway dynamically adapting their responses based on ...

Previous studies have used fNIRS to detect brain activity in the ventral visual pathway, but none have evaluated its feasibility and ecological validity, or whether the signal detected is desirable.