When you see a carrot bag in the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and chirivías or buffalo wings and celery?
It depends, of course, on whether he is doing an abundant winter stew or preparing to see the Super Bowl.
Most scientists agree to classify an object, such as thinking about a carrot as a root vegetable or a party snack, is the work of the prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain responsible for reasoning and other high -level functions that make us intelligent and social. In that account, the eyes and visual regions of the brain are like a security camera that collects data and processes in a standardized way before passing it for analysis.
However, a new study led by the biomedical and neuroscientific engineer Nuttid asset Paper in making sense of information. Crucially, the way in which it interprets the information depends on what the rest of the brain is working on.
If it is Super Bowl Sunday, the visual system sees those carrots in a vegetable tray before the prefrontal cortex knows that they exist.
Posted on April 11 in Nature communications, The study provides part of the clearest evidence so far that early sensory systems play a role in decision -making, and adapt in real time. It also points to new approaches to design AI systems that can adapt to new or unexpected situations.