Keywords: Competing visual stimuli, neuronal response, medial temporal lobe, brain.

Medial temporal lobe shown to have physical capacity for neuronal direction of response to competing external stimuli working via internal electronic representation of the competing external visual stimuli.

12 patients with epilepsy and electrodes implanted to enable localisation of brain lesion for possible surgical excision consented to participate in an experiment designed to explore medial temporal lobe response to competing external stimuli. The results showed that the brain physically can modulate its electronic response to competing stimuli, and do so very quickly. The patients all gave informed consent.

This item was posted by GavaghanCommunications on 19.11.10. Apologies to readers for the delay. All part of the shake down and rationalisation of what the title is about editorially and has the potential to become.

Based on a paper in Nature: On-line, voluntary control of human temporal lobe neurons, by Moran Cerf et al. DOI:10.1038/nature09510.

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