When Brain Matters interviewed Dr. David Fitzpatrick from the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, they talked all about how the visual cortex functions. Watch David’s postdoctoral fellow (and Brain Matters listener) Dr. Ben Scholl talk all about the fascinating research in the Fitzpatrick Lab.
Episode 33 - Motion Perception with Dr. Alex Huk
On this episode of Brain Matters, Anthony and Dr. Alex Huk (Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin) talk about how our brains process vision and motion.
Music from today’s episode is by Foreign Language: http://foreignlanguageband.bandcamp.com
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When Brain Matters sat down with Dr. Alyssa Brewer from The University of California, Irvine, we talked about maps of visual information in the brain.
The visual cortex is the area of the brain that is responsible for processing visual information. Much of this brain area is organized into maps where each hemisphere encodes information about half of the visual field. Light seen through the fovea (an area of the retina used for fine visual acuity) occupies a large amount of space in the cortical representation of the visual field.
Find the full review article on PubMed.
Image Credit:
Brian A. Wandell, Serge O. Dumoulin, Alyssa A. Brewer, Visual Field Maps in Human Cortex, Neuron, Volume 56, Issue 2, 25 October 2007, Pages 366-383.
Episode 4 - Topographic Visual Maps with Dr. Alyssa Brewer
Matt and Dr. Alyssa Brewer talk about her research in visual neuroscience and her unique path to becoming a leading researcher in her field.
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