Share of Cost, Neuroscientists Identify How The Brain Works To Select What We Want To See
Monday, Aug. 13th 2012 9:17 AM
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, a team led by Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists has identified how different neural regions communicate to determine what to visually pay attention to and what to ignore.
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