Researchers Find Where Visual Memories Are Made Discovery could lead to new treatments for cognitive disorders including autism and schizophrenia. The research is in Nature Neuroscience. (full access paywall) Research: “Visual recognition memory, manifested as long-term habituation, requires synaptic plasticity in V1″ by Sam F Cooke, Robert W Komorowski, Eitan S Kaplan, Jeffrey P Gavornik and Mark F Bear in Nature Neuroscience. doi:10.1038/nn.3920 (dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.3920) Image: A small region of the brain called the primary visual cortex can be targeted using a virus (light green) to block habituation learning. Image credit: Eitan S. Kaplan and Sam F. Cooke/Bear Lab. #neuroscience #memory
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