Scientists Find Prehistoric Brain Circuit Still Controls Vision

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.
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How visual information travels from the retina to the midbrain

Neuroscientists have revealed the precise connections between sensory neurons inside the retina and the superior colliculus, a structure in the midbrain. Neuropixels probes are a relatively recent ...
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Old area in the brain turns out to be more important than expected

Researchers have discovered that a brain area preserved through evolution, called the superior colliculus, is more crucial for vision than we thought. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for ...
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Researchers prove the superior colliculus, an ancestral brain structure, performs visual computations once thought to be exclusive to the cortex (IMAGE)

IN CSIC-UMH researchers Giovani Usseglio, Teresa Femenía, Andreas Kardamakis and Kuisong Song. Source IN CSIC-UMH.
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Neuroscientists reveal precise connections between retinal nerve cells and the midbrain structure

For the first time, neuroscientists from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (currently in the process of being established) have revealed the ...
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How visual information travels from the retina to the midbrain

For the first time, neuroscientists from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (currently in the process of being established) have revealed the ...