Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our understanding of how the brain processes visual information and could help with developing a visual prosthesis for blind people in the future.
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Deep-brain recording reveals how a crucial relay station shapes human visual signals
December 17, 2025
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