List of Articles about the Brain

Scientific American July 2007 page 52: The Memory Code

Temporal Precision In The Neural Code And The Timescales Of Natural
Vision , Nature

Excerpts: The timing of action potentials relative to sensory stimuli can be
precise down to milliseconds in the visual system, even though the relevant
timescales of natural vision are much slower. The existence of such precision
contributes to a fundamental debate over the basis of the neural code and,
specifically, what timescales are important for neural computation. (...), here
we demonstrate that the relevant timescale of neuronal spike trains depends on
the frequency content of the visual stimulus, and that 'relative', not
absolute, precision is maintained (...).

Temporal Precision In The Neural Code And The Timescales Of Natural
Vision, Daniel A. Butts,  Chong Weng, Jianzhong Jin,  Chun-I Yeh,  Nicholas A.
Lesica, Jose-Manuel Alonso,  Garrett B. Stanley, 07/09/06, DOI:
10.1038/nature06105, Nature 449, 92-95

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7158/full/nature06105.html


15.02. Reading Process Is Surprisingly Different That Previously Thought ,
ScienceDaily

Excerpts: Being able to read competently is one of the most important skills we
need (...). Analysing the way we read can offer valuable insights into how we
process visual information. (...) However, until now most assumed that when we
read both eyes look at the same letter of a word concurrently. Now
ground-breaking research (...) has shown that this is not actually the case.
They found that our eyes are actually up to something much more exciting when
we read - our eyes look at different letters in the same word and then combine
the different images through a process known as fusion. (...)

* [40] Reading Process Is Surprisingly Different That Previously Thought,
Technology Shows, 2007/09/11, ScienceDaily & British Association for the
Advancement of Science
* Contributed by [41] Atin Das

[40] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070910092543.htm
[41] mailto:dasatin@yahoo.co.in

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