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New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory

The Quanta Podcast

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The Borders of Perception and Memory in the Brain

Study shows how the visual cortex interfaces with the rest of the cortex through gradients. Many parallel channels each seem to preserve meaning across different types of representations. Work hints at how that progression from a specifics to greater abstractions might start to happen at a more granular level.

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