Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like ...

Receptive Fields in Primate Retina Are Coordinated to Sample Visual Space More Uniformly. PLoS Biology , 2009; 7 (4): e63 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000063 Cite This Page : ...

Receptive fields have been identified for the visual system, auditory system and somatosensory system, so far. For more information, see the following related content on ScienceDaily: Related Stories ...

To find out, the researchers created a model of the visual cortex that had different levels of neurons with receptive fields of increasing size. They then simulated an evoked memory by sending a ...

How that visual “clutter” affects visual processing in the brain, however, is not well understood. In a new study published Oct. 22 in the journal Neuron , Yale researchers show that this clutter ...