MIT Scientists Have Uncovered A Group Of Neurons That Light Up When We Encounter Food Pictures

MIT scientists Have Uncovered A Group Of Neurons That Light Up When We Encounter Food Pictures Food-related images activate a recently found population of food-responsive neurons in the ventral visual stream. MIT scientists suggest that this neural population may have evolved to represent the importance of food in human society. References and credits: Researchers Have Discovered a Population of Neurons That Light up Whenever We See Images of Food: A highly selective response to food in human visual cortex revealed by hypothesis-free voxel decomposition: (22)01286-6 (22)01286-6?_returnURL= VISION: CENTRAL PROCESSING: How does fMRI brain scanning work? Alan Alda and Dr. Nancy Kanwisher, MIT: Nancy Kanwisher: A neural portrait of the human mind: fMRI Images: