Chinese scientists reveal how brain decodes both coarse, fine visual information effortlessly

Scientist Wang Wei (4th L) discusses with colleagues in the office at Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on March 27, 2018. Chinese neuroscientists have gained a deeper understanding on how people simultaneously recognize the face of a child, while at the same time visually resolving individual eyelash hairs. The study, published in the journal Neuron, has shown how human and non-human primates manage to conserve local high-resolution information from early to intermediate areas of the visual hierarchy, to fulfill the hard task. (Xinhua/Cao Fahua)