Tag: visual cortex

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain activity, brain regions, decision-making, hindbrain, human thinking, Live Science, Matteo Carandini, midbrain, motor regions, mouse study, muscle responses, neurons, pop psychology, processing, R. J. Mackenzie, textbooks, visual cortex}

Even in Mice, Decision-Making Is More Complex than We Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 9, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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If it’s this complex in mice, what are we to make of simplistic representations of human thinking in pop psychology textbooks? Read More ›

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Date
June 19, 2022

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, flies, food shortages, mice, Neuron (journal), neurons, neuroscience, neuroscientists, researchers, visual cortex}

Yes, Brains — Like Computers — Have a Low-Power Mode

_{Science and Culture
June 19, 2022

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Sure they do. It makes a lot of sense to conserve power when food supplies are low. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, axon, brain, Brown University, Duke University, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, library, Max Planck Institute, neuroscience, proteins, purpose, retina, Rockefeller University, visual cortex}

Brain Neurons Are “Comparable to a Library”

_{David Coppedge
April 8, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s one of those occasions in biology (not rare) when the term “intelligent design,” despite other merits, falls flat as a description. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
August 10, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", compound eye, computers, convergent evolution, cornea, evolution, eye, functional specification, Golgi apparatus, Human, intelligent design, iris, lens, mitochondria, nucleus, optic nerve, programming, retina, Ribosome, visual cortex}

Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design

_{Walter Myers III
August 10, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 11, 2018

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, Adrian Dyer, animals, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, Australia, dog, food, honeybees, humans, Melbourne, neurons, nothing, researchers, universals, visual cortex, zero}

Can Bees Understand the Concept of “Zero”?

_{Michael Egnor
June 11, 2018

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The scientists credited the bees with more intelligence than some humans. Read More ›