(Medical Xpress) -- Remarkably, cortical maps show that neurons in the primary visual cortex have specific preferences for the location and orientation of a given visual field stimulus – but how these ...

The formation of the retinotopic map depends on the action of axon guidance molecules, activity-dependent mechanisms and axonal competition. However, little is known about the plasticity potential of ...

Mapping the visual cortex First, brain cells make literal maps of visual information called retinotopic maps. These maps are slightly deformed, just as a world map is never a perfect representation of ...

Monkey brain scans have revealed new information about the part of the brain that processes visual information. Monkey brain scans have revealed new information about the part of the brain that ...