{"id":217530,"date":"2025-07-10T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/computational-models-explore-how-regions-of-the-visual-cortex-jointly-represent-visual-information"},"modified":"2025-07-10T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:27:11","slug":"computational-models-explore-how-regions-of-the-visual-cortex-jointly-represent-visual-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/computational-models-explore-how-regions-of-the-visual-cortex-jointly-represent-visual-information","title":{"rendered":"Computational models explore how regions of the visual cortex jointly represent visual information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computational-models-explore-how-regions-of-the-visual-cortex-jointly-represent-visual-information2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex, the network of regions in the brain\u2019s outer layer known to process visual information, have focused on the contribution of individual regions, as opposed to their collective representation of visual stimuli.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin recently carried out a study aimed at shedding new light on how regions across the human visual cortex collectively encode and process visual information, by simulating their contribution using computational models. Their findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-025-02252-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Human Behaviour<\/i>, highlight specific rules that could govern the relations between these different regions of the visual cortex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of us take seeing for granted, but the process is surprisingly complex,\u201d Alessandro Gifford, first author of the paper, told Medical Xpress. \u201cWhen we look at the world, it\u2019s not just our eyes doing the work\u2014it\u2019s our brain, specifically an area at the back called the visual cortex. Think of the visual cortex as a team of specialists. Each member of the team (or brain region) handles a different aspect of what we see\u2014one might focus on shapes, another on motion, another on faces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex, the network of regions in the brain\u2019s outer layer known to process visual information, have focused on the contribution of individual regions, as opposed to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}