Research Subject Gets TMS (IMAGE)

University of Rochester

Research Subject Gets TMS

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A test subject has the medial temporal visual area (MT) of her brain temporarily weakened so that researchers can study how it affects her ability to detect motion. University of Rochester Professor Duje Tadin has found that the MT area is responsible for allowing humans to ignore background motion in their environments and instead focus in on more important motion of smaller objects in the foreground.

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