Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 87, No. 15 (Aug., 1990), pp. 5764-5767 (4 pages) We have examined the number of "blobs" (cytochrome ...
Imagine yourself sometime in the far future aboard a routine rocket to Mars. Someone just spilled their drink. Without gravity, it collects in floating blobs that ripple right before your eyes. Now ...
Your brain is lying to you right now. Not maliciously, and not because something’s wrong with it. It’s doing exactly what ...
Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells, or OPCs (the purple and green blobs above), prune unneeded synapses (the silver streaks) in the brain’s visual cortex in response to new information and experiences.
The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...