Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 13:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. The researchers made the discovery using a new technique for decoding data from functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI. The findings are a significant step forward in understanding how we perceive, process and remember visual information...