AI, monkey brains, and the virtue of small thinking | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory What does it take to make AI that can pass as human? Try massive clusters of supercomputers. To build human-like intelligence, computer scientists think big. However, for neuroscientists who want to u...

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This study introduces a novel glutamate-weighted functional imaging technique. By directly capturing neurotransmitter dynamics, it achieves precise localization of the visual cortex, offering a more direct imaging tool for brain science.
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Layers of the monkey visual cortex are selectively modulated during electrical stimulation Electrical brain stimulation can be used to modulate brain activity but it is unclear how it affects the cortical layers. This study shows that only the deeper layers, but not the superficial layers, ...

How does electrical stimulation affect different cortical layers? ⚡🧠 W/ #Starstim researchers found that only deep layers of monkey V1 showed phase-dependent modulation during visual processing. A step toward layer-targeted neuromodulation! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Faster feet boost theta, drop alpha-beta 🚶‍♂️ Forest VR hikes visual cortex load versus static grid.🧠
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Armed and ready at C5 - @hughtakemoto.bsky.social on serotonin effects on pyramidal cells across V1 and V2. #SfN2025 #serotonin #visualcortex #theta_resonance

Continuous Flash Suppression responses in mouse visual cortex: stimulus laterality and anesthesia effects We investigated whether binocularly conflicting stimuli adapted from primate binocular rivalry studies could induce binocular response suppression in mouse visual cortex. We presented binocularly conf...

Just submitted my first 1st-author paper of my PhD 🎉 It's probably still a long way to publication, but if you are interested in #BinocularRivalry and mouse #VisualCortex, this might be for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....

Scientists Identify Neurons That Enable Perception of Imaginary Shapes

Researchers identified IC‑encoders, a V1 neuron subpopulation that drives pattern‑completion for illusory contours in mice; the work appeared in Nature Neuroscience 2025. getnews.me/scientists-identify-neur... #icencoders #visualcortex

From Retina to Cortex: The Brain’s Visual Processing Powerhouse YouTube video by Greenhouse for Mental Health Development

From Retina to Cortex: The Brain’s Visual Processing Powerhouse

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... leads to interesting topographical maps with properties similar to that observed in the primary #visualcortex. Read more on bsky.app/profile/zeji... !

Flowchart of the imaging and behavioral data analysis and the lesion distribution map of the 33 patients. The data processing workflow was as follows. Top left: Workflow for task fMRI data. Bottom left: workflow for HARDI data. Bottom right: Workflow for correlation analysis. Top right: the lesion distribution map of the 33 patients.

This study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain's #language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the #VisualCortex and for corresponding behaviors in humans @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1Jkoz

Flowchart of the imaging and behavioral data analysis and the lesion distribution map of the 33 patients. The data processing workflow was as follows. Top left: Workflow for task fMRI data. Bottom left: workflow for HARDI data. Bottom right: Workflow for correlation analysis. Top right: the lesion distribution map of the 33 patients.

This study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain's #language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the #VisualCortex and for corresponding behaviors in humans @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1Jkoz

Flowchart of the imaging and behavioral data analysis and the lesion distribution map of the 33 patients. The data processing workflow was as follows. Top left: Workflow for task fMRI data. Bottom left: workflow for HARDI data. Bottom right: Workflow for correlation analysis. Top right: the lesion distribution map of the 33 patients.

This study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain's #language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the #VisualCortex and for corresponding behaviors in humans @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1Jkoz

Digital Twin of Mouse Brain Predicts Neuron Activity and Connections With Striking Accuracy Stanford-led researchers have developed a highly accurate AI-powered digital twin of the mouse visual cortex, trained on neural data from mice watching movies. This model can generalize responses to n...

Digital Twin of Mouse Brain Predicts Neuron Activity and Connections With Striking Accuracy 🎥🧠🐭 www.azoai.com/news/2025041... #Neuroscience #AI #DigitalTwin #BrainResearch #MouseModel #VisualCortex #NeuralNetwork #FoundationModel #BrainSimulation #NeuroAI

Scientists find abnormally slow neural dynamics in visual cortex of depressed individuals New brain imaging reveals unusual slowness in the visual cortex of individuals experiencing major depression. This altered activity, linked to symptom severity, highlights a connection between visual processing and the broader depressive state.

New brain imaging reveals unusual slowness in the visual cortex of individuals experiencing major depression. This altered activity, linked to symptom severity, highlights a connection between visual processing and the broader… #Neuroscience #Depression #MentalHealth #BrainImaging #VisualCortex

Please check out the paper (and the supplementary figures) there is a ton more to this story that could not fit in a post!
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@marius10p.bsky.social lab. Same visual stim different neuron activation (video),but the mouse visual cortex achieves exceptional precision in encoding, with thresholds as low as 0.3°.The bottleneck? Downstream decoders, not cortical 'noise.' 🧠✨ #Neuroscience #VisualCortex doi.org/10.1101/679324

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(image, 2016) Functional MRI activation maps in acquired auditory-visual synesthesia, in "Seeing the sound after visual loss: functional MRI in acquired auditory-visual #synesthesia" link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00221-0... #fMRI #blind #visualcortex