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Scientists explain inception of perception in the brain

The taste of champagne, the sound of a train, the flash of a pop fly into left field – indeed all of human perception – begins in the brain’s center. That’s where sensory information passes from the thalamus to the neocortex for proce...

How the Brain Filters out Distracting Thoughts to Focus on a Single Bit of Information

... brain uses to filter out distracting thoughts to focus on a single bit of information. Their results are reported in 19 November issue of Nature. Think of your brain like a radio: You're turning the knob to find your favourite station, but the kn...

The Eye and Night Vision

... crystalline lens, whose primary purpose is to focus light onto the retina. The retina contains receptor cells, rods and cones, which, when stimulated by light, send signals to the brain. These signals are subsequently interpreted as vision. Mo...

The Control Interrupt Model of Psychedelic Action

... Incoming sensation is gated by the top-down focus of the subject. Inhibitory feedback subtracts background noise while excitatory feedback resolves and amplifies salient data. This configuration describes a signal filter/amplifier with an inhib...

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