The astonishing maps that reveal how our brain organises
everything we see - UC Berkeley team use fMRI to find out where
semantically linked concepts are processed in the brain -
Findings are a quantum leap from previous research mapping
concepts to brain regions - Team create video and interactive
website to present their incredible discoveries By Damien Gayle
Scientists have put together the first ever map of how the brain
organises the thousands of images that come flooding in through
our eyes every day. A team at the University of California,
Berkeley, have found that the brain is wired to put in order all
the categories of objects and actions that we see. To illustrate
their findings, they have created the first map of how the brain
organises these categories across the cortex. The team used fMRI
scans of patients to work out which how which regions of their
brains process different categories of information (right). They
were then able to show the regions on a virtual 3D brain (left)
The result — achiev