If There Were Ever A Pro-Marijuana Video To Go Viral, This Is It. Conscious perception has little to do with primary visual cortex, research suggests. Imaging data suggest that conscious perception has little to do with the primary visual cortex -- the region where visual information enters the brain. From a purely intuitive point of view, it is easy to believe that our ability to actively pay attention to a target is inextricably connected with our capacity to consciously perceive it. However, this proposition remains the subject of extensive debate in the research community, and surprising new findings from a team of scientists in Japan and Europe promise to fuel the debate. Resolving how these aspects of perception are managed requires a detailed understanding of how the visual centers in our brain process information. A region known as V1 has been investigated as it represents the first portion of the visual cortex to receive and process signals transmitted from the retina.
Many researchers favor a model in which functions pertaining consciousness are widely spread among the whole visual system, including V1. Attentive, but unaware. Rage Comics - In Real Life. Awesome everyday trick shots. Traffic Waves, physics for bored commuters.