The cerebral cortex of your brain is the outermost layer. It's the part of the brain that appears wrinkled because it has a lot of folds. Your cerebral cortex is divided into two hemispheres. Each ...

HBP researchers have trained a large-scale model of the primary visual cortex of the mouse to solve visual tasks in a highly robust way. The model provides the basis for a new generation of neural ...

Maps have played an important role in scientific progress. Claudius Ptolemaeus transformed our understanding of the world with his map of Earth and Tycho Brahe our understanding of the Universe with ...

Every day, we call upon a unique capacity of our brain, visual mental imagery, which allows us to visualise images, objects or people 'in our heads'. Based on the recent case of a patient with a ...

Cortical blindness occurs when a person loses their visual perception due to damage to certain areas of the brain. The eyes work as usual, but the brain cannot process visual information. The damage ...