Scientists Discover a Surprising Central Role of Darks in Brain Visual Maps Video Explanation (VIDEO)
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Scientists have been studying how visual space is mapped in the cerebral cortex for many decades under the assumption that the map is equal for lights and darks. Surprisingly, recent work demonstrates that visual brain maps are dark-centric and that, just as stars rotate around black holes in the Universe, lights rotate around darks in the brain representation of visual space. The work was done by Jens Kremkow and collaborators in the laboratories of Jose Manuel Alonso at the State University of New York College of Optometry and will be published on May 5, of 2016 in Nature. This is video is an illustration of the findings by Dr. Alonso.
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Dr. Jose-Manuel Alonso, SUNY College of Optometry
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