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: https://neurosciencenews.com/food-image-neurons-21296/ A highly selective response to food in human visual cortex revealed by hypothesis-free voxel decomposition: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01286-6 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01286-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982222012866%3Fshowall%3Dtrue VISION: CENTRAL PROCESSING: https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/neuroscience/chapter/vision-central-processing/ How does fMRI brain scanning work? Alan Alda and Dr. Nancy Kanwisher, MIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvB9hAarzw4 Nancy Kanwisher: A neural portrait of the human mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yj3nGv0kn8 fMRI Images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51V3uTfo4KU