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How brain rhythms organize our visual perception
September 9, 2019 by NewsBot
Imagine that you are watching a crowded hang-gliding competition, keeping track of a red and orange glider's skillful movements. Our brain uses separate circuits to achieve such outstanding tracking ability, one specialized to process color information and the other specialized for processing directions of motion. A team of scientists now discovered that the brain's specialized color and motion circuits use different frequencies to broadcast their output to brain areas that combine the various visual feature components into a unified percept.