Study shows where brain transforms seeing into acting

You see the flour in the pantry, so you reach for it. You see the traffic light change to green, so you step on the gas. While the link between seeing and then moving in response is simple and essential to everyday existence, neuroscientists haven’t been able to get beyond debating where the link is and how it’s made. But in a new study in Nature Communications, a team at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory provides evidence that one crucial brain region called the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) plays an important role in converting vision into action.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Study shows where brain transforms seeing into acting

You see the flour in the pantry, so you reach for it. You see the traffic light change to green, so you step on the gas. While the link between seeing and then moving in response is simple and essential to everyday existence, neuroscientists haven’t been able to get beyond debating where the link is and how it’s made. But in a new study in Nature Communications, a team at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory provides evidence that one crucial brain region called the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) plays an important role in converting vision into action.

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Is this part of our inner zombie? The preprogrammed part of the brain that just requires a single input to cause an action, without conscious thought.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Study shows where brain transforms seeing into acting

You see the flour in the pantry, so you reach for it. You see the traffic light change to green, so you step on the gas. While the link between seeing and then moving in response is simple and essential to everyday existence, neuroscientists haven’t been able to get beyond debating where the link is and how it’s made. But in a new study in Nature Communications, a team at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory provides evidence that one crucial brain region called the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) plays an important role in converting vision into action.

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Is this part of our inner zombie? The preprogrammed part of the brain that just requires a single input to cause an action, without conscious thought.

Like running a script ?

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Study shows where brain transforms seeing into acting

You see the flour in the pantry, so you reach for it. You see the traffic light change to green, so you step on the gas. While the link between seeing and then moving in response is simple and essential to everyday existence, neuroscientists haven’t been able to get beyond debating where the link is and how it’s made. But in a new study in Nature Communications, a team at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory provides evidence that one crucial brain region called the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) plays an important role in converting vision into action.

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Is this part of our inner zombie? The preprogrammed part of the brain that just requires a single input to cause an action, without conscious thought.

Like running a script ?

Yes. Used all the time when driving a car.

mollwollfumble said:

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

Is this part of our inner zombie? The preprogrammed part of the brain that just requires a single input to cause an action, without conscious thought.

Like running a script ?

Yes. Used all the time when driving a car.

Yeah like an automatic pilot when you’ve done tasks enough they require no active thinking (or any you are aware of)