#visualcortex
Armed and ready at C5 - @hughtakemoto.bsky.social on serotonin effects on pyramidal cells across V1 and V2. #SfN2025 #serotonin #visualcortex #theta_resonance
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Amazing and mind-blowing work ! And more that anything - really cool thread with all the gifs 🧵
The #visualcortex is full of mysteries 🤩
After a long journey through review, our paper is finally out in Nature Communications.

We started with a simple problem:
The visual cortex is strongly modulated by movement. So how can it represent the visual world without movement interfering with everything?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 15, 2026 at 7:32 PM
@marius10p.bsky.social lab. Same visual stim different neuron activation (video),but the mouse visual cortex achieves exceptional precision in encoding, with thresholds as low as 0.3°.The bottleneck? Downstream decoders, not cortical 'noise.' 🧠✨ #Neuroscience #VisualCortex doi.org/10.1101/679324
November 25, 2024 at 8:00 PM
This study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain's #language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the #VisualCortex and for corresponding behaviors in humans @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1Jkoz
May 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
3/6 📌 #OHBM2026 Talk/Poster 2994

What makes something beautiful, and how does the brain represent it?

Xinyu Liang: "Dissociable representations of aesthetic features in the human visual cortex"

#Aesthetics #VisualCortex #Neuroscience

@neocosmliang.bsky.social
June 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
New brain imaging reveals unusual slowness in the visual cortex of individuals experiencing major depression. This altered activity, linked to symptom severity, highlights a connection between visual processing and the broader… #Neuroscience #Depression #MentalHealth #BrainImaging #VisualCortex
Scientists find abnormally slow neural dynamics in visual cortex of depressed individuals
New brain imaging reveals unusual slowness in the visual cortex of individuals experiencing major depression. This altered activity, linked to symptom severity, highlights a connection between visual processing and the broader depressive state.
www.psypost.org
February 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Please check out the paper (and the supplementary figures) there is a ton more to this story that could not fit in a post!
#neuroskyence #visualcortex #sensory #perception
January 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain's #language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the #VisualCortex and for corresponding behaviors in humans @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1Jkoz
May 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How does the #brain encode features of environmental structure while viewing a 3D scene? This study shows that the human #VisualCortex hierarchically encodes nearby boundaries, revealing a distance-before-orientation principle of spatial layout processing @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3NoUjh2
March 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Just submitted my first 1st-author paper of my PhD 🎉 It's probably still a long way to publication, but if you are interested in #BinocularRivalry and mouse #VisualCortex, this might be for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....
Continuous Flash Suppression responses in mouse visual cortex: stimulus laterality and anesthesia effects
We investigated whether binocularly conflicting stimuli adapted from primate binocular rivalry studies could induce binocular response suppression in mouse visual cortex. We presented binocularly conf...
www.biorxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain's #language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the #VisualCortex and for corresponding behaviors in humans @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1Jkoz
May 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
How does the #brain encode features of environmental structure while viewing a 3D scene? This study shows that the human #VisualCortex hierarchically encodes nearby boundaries, revealing a distance-before-orientation principle of spatial layout processing @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3NoUjh2
March 27, 2026 at 8:55 AM
#VNS
Faster feet boost theta, drop alpha-beta 🚶‍♂️ Forest VR hikes visual cortex load versus static grid.🧠
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/vns-0025-0017
#visualcortex #coopervision #alphabeta
December 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
How does the #brain encode features of environmental structure while viewing a 3D scene? This study shows that the human #VisualCortex hierarchically encodes nearby boundaries, revealing a distance-before-orientation principle of spatial layout processing @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3NoUjh2
March 26, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This study introduces a novel glutamate-weighted functional imaging technique. By directly capturing neurotransmitter dynamics, it achieves precise localization of the visual cortex, offering a more direct imaging tool for brain science.
doi.org/10.1016/j.xi...
#fMRI #visualcortex #medicaltechnology
February 11, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Researchers identified IC‑encoders, a V1 neuron subpopulation that drives pattern‑completion for illusory contours in mice; the work appeared in Nature Neuroscience 2025. https://getnews.me/scientists-identify-neurons-that-enable-perception-of-imaginary-shapes/ #icencoders #visualcortex
October 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
(image, 2016) Functional MRI activation maps in acquired auditory-visual synesthesia, in "Seeing the sound after visual loss: functional MRI in acquired auditory-visual #synesthesia" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00221-016-4802-6 #fMRI #blind #visualcortex
April 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
April 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
How does electrical stimulation affect different cortical layers? ⚡🧠 W/ #Starstim researchers found that only deep layers of monkey V1 showed phase-dependent modulation during visual processing. A step toward layer-targeted neuromodulation! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#VisualCortex
Layers of the monkey visual cortex are selectively modulated during electrical stimulation
Electrical brain stimulation can be used to modulate brain activity but it is unclear how it affects the cortical layers. This study shows that only the deeper layers, but not the superficial layers, ...
journals.plos.org
January 7, 2026 at 10:29 AM
#NeuroPSIPublications: Recent paper from Brice Bathellier's group in
@eLife: Context-dependent signaling of coincident auditory and visual events in primary visual cortex.#visualcortex #calciumimaging #auditorycortex

doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…
Context-dependent signaling of coincident auditory and visual events in primary visual cortex
Abrupt sounds boost coincident visual cortex responses which could help localization of sudden audio-visual events.
doi.org
January 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
... leads to interesting topographical maps with properties similar to that observed in the primary #visualcortex. Read more on bsky.app/profile/zeji... !
June 16, 2025 at 6:20 AM