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This Week in Neuroscience

Vincent Racaniello

TWiN 64: How the brain decides what we see

OCT 8, 202574 MIN
This Week in Neuroscience

TWiN 64: How the brain decides what we see

OCT 8, 202574 MIN

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TWiN explains how visual neurons show functional flexibility by selectively responding to subsets of inputs representing attended objects while ignoring those conveying information about irrelevant objects. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Gamma-band synchronization in visual cortex (Nat Comm) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to [email protected]