Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how the brain predicts missing visual information

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Neuroscientists at the University of Glasgow have gained new insight into how the brain predicts missing visual information when perceiving the outside world. The researchers, from the University’s Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, discovered that our brains “sketch out” portions of scenes that are not visible—much like how an artist sketches out a scene before filling the remaining details. The […]

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Protein has unique effects in neural connections related to information processing

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Our cognitive abilities come down to how well the connections, or synapses, between our brain cells transmit signals. A new study by researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory digs deep into the molecular mechanisms that enable synaptic transmission to show the distinct role of a protein that when mutated has been linked to causing intellectual disability. The […]

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Brain quickly adapts to new surroundings, only sees the most important information captured though eyes

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Certain objects attract our attention in a particular way. It could be something that is especially ugly or something that we perceive as being rather pretty. With a background in design, I ought to know something about what makes one object appear prettier than another. However, you don’t have to look far before it becomes difficult to predict whether something […]

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