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Article: Investigators at University of Birmingham zero in on neurophysiology.
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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According to a study from Birmingham, the United Kingdom, "Schwarzkopf DS, Zhang J, Kourtzi Z. Flexible learning of natural statistics in the human brain. J Neurophysiol 102: 1854-1867, 2009."
"First published July 15, 2009; doi:10.1152/jn.00028.2009. The ability to detect and identify targets in cluttered scenes is a critical skill for survival and interactions. To solve this challenge the brain has optimized mechanisms for capitalizing on frequently occurring regularities in the environment. Although evolution and development have been suggested to shape the brain's architecture in a manner that resembles these natural statistics, we provide novel evidence that ...