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A Tiny, Pea-Sized Thing in Your Brain May Be Much More Important Than We Thought
And the superior colliculus has been diligently doing its duty for a long, long time, preserved through millions of years of evolution. While it's relatively large in fish and amphibians though ...
Old area in the brain turns out to be more important for vision than expected
The superior colliculus may therefore play a less important role in humans. It is known that the moment someone starts waving ...
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The Ephs and Ephrins Hardwire the Nervous System
The process of RGC pathfinding toward the superior colliculus is extremely well orchestrated, with RGC axons originating from specific fields within the retina terminating in specific zones within ...