Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified which brain circuits are vital for visual acuity and ...

To test this, we made high-resolution spatial maps of receptive fields in the developing ferret lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). Developing receptive fields (RFs), had a variety of shapes ...

Figure 2: Visual processing in V1-lesioned monkeys. Figure 3: Role of the LGN in driving V1-independent visual processing. After we had inactivated the LGN, virtually all extrastriate responses in ...

Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA Robertson, Sally. (2023, June 12). What does the Thalamus do?. News-Medical. Retrieved on May 28 ...

I specialize in measuring the visual subcortex—the lateral geniculate nucleus, pulvinar and thalamic reticular nucleus in the thalamus, and the superior colliculus—using structural and functional ...