Superior colliculus Enhances Visual Thinking

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Activity in brain system that controls eye movements highlights importance of spatial thinking

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The superior colliculus, a brain region that controls eye movements, also plays an important role in higher cognitive functions like categorization and decision making.

Scientists measured patterns of brain cell activity across multiple brain regions involved in visual category decisions.

Area of brain traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important locations in space, like directing their eyes and head toward bright flash of light.

Study: Spatial parts of the brain are getting recruited into helping us perform non-spatial cognitive functions.

“It’s like the brain has created this beautiful mental graph paper which it can use to solve both spatial problems,” Freedman said.

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