HOW THE HUMAN BRAIN DECODES THE VISUAL WORLD - SCIENTIFIC - TopicsExpress



          

HOW THE HUMAN BRAIN DECODES THE VISUAL WORLD - SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH IN AUSTRALIA - HAPPY HALLOWEEN, AUSTRALIA! University of Queensland (UQ) scientists have made a fundamental breakthrough into how the brain decodes the visual world. Using advanced electrical recording techniques, researchers at UQs Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have discovered how output cells of the eye balls retina compute the direction of a moving object. QBIs Dr Ben Sivyer and Associate Professor Stephen Williams have found that dendrites – the branching process of a neuron that conducts impulses toward the cell – play a critical role in decoding images. Read more here: uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=26862
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:01:18 +0000

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