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Expanding our view of vision

New brain-scanning technique allows scientists to see when and where the brain processes visual information.
January 26, 2014
Bioinformatics Imaging Neuroscience
Clinical Research
Grantee

Every time you open your eyes, visual information flows into your brain, which interprets what you're seeing. Now, for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have noninvasively mapped this flow of information in the human brain with unique accuracy, using a novel brain-scanning technique.