Researchers have settled a 60-year-old debate in neuroscience, proving that the visual cortex constructs complex images from ...

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A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...